MasukIsla Bennett
I couldn't breathe. The nightmare still had its claws in me when the lock clicked. I was on the floor, back against the couch, shaking. Then Kai was there, dropping to his knees and dragging me into his lap like he couldn't get me close enough. His arms locked around me. One big hand fisted in my hair, forcing my face against his chest so I could hear his heartbeat hammering. "Breathe, Isla... I've got you." I clutched his hoodie, but it wasn't enough. I needed skin. I needed something real. So I shoved the fabric up and pressed my palms to his hot stomach. His muscles jumped under my touch. Something inside him snapped. "Isla!" "Kai... please..." I begged. He had already helped me through nightmares like this since I was twelve, when the car accident happened. I never thought anyone could make me feel so warm and safe since my father was killed. One year later, my mom married Kai's father, and we became a family. Suddenly, I had an older brother. Kai Mercer. He was my hero. But he was also my biggest, most forbidden fantasy. The moment he held me during one of my panic attacks, shirtless and warm, I knew I would never see him the same way again. My hormones went wild. I wanted him to do more than just hug me. God forbid, but today my wish was finally granted. "I'm done pretending, Kai. I love you." "This isn't right, Isla." "Screw that." I yanked his head down and crashed my mouth onto his. The kiss was filthy from the first second, my tongue pushing deep. I thought he would push me away and lecture me, but instead he cupped my face and pulled me closer. His teeth scraped my bottom lip like he wanted to devour me. A low, hungry sound tore from his throat as he licked into my mouth. I moaned and climbed higher in his lap, grinding down against the thick, hard length already straining against his sweats. He was so fucking big. I could feel every inch of him through the thin fabric. "Fuck," he rasped against my lips. "Isla—" "Don't stop," I begged with a shaking voice. "Please. I need you." That was all it took. He flipped us fast, laying me on the floor and yanking my sleep shirt over my head. My shorts and panties were gone in seconds. Cool air hit my wet pussy for half a second before Kai shoved my thighs wide and buried his face between them. He licked me like a man starved. His tongue dragged through my folds, slow and filthy, then circled my clit with ruthless focus. Two thick fingers pushed inside me without warning, curling hard against that spot that made my back arch off the floor. "Oh my god... Kai!" I grabbed his hair and held him there as he sucked my clit into his mouth and fucked me with his fingers at the same time. Wet sounds filled the room. My thighs started to shake. He didn't let up. He just growled against my pussy and kept eating me like he needed to taste every drop. I came hard, crying out his name, hips jerking against his face. He licked me through it, slower now, almost soothing, until I was whimpering... then he rose over me. His sweats were shoved down just enough for his cock to spring free ... thick, flushed dark, and leaking at the tip. He stroked himself once, eyes locked on my soaked pussy, then lined up and pushed in with one long, desperate thrust. He buried himself to the hilt with a guttural groan that vibrated through both of us. I was so full I could barely breathe. "Jesus Christ, Isla..." His forehead dropped to mine. "You're so fucking tight." I curled my toes as he thrust deeper, harder... but then an alarm blared. I woke up gasping. My body was still shaking. My thighs were pressed together, pussy throbbing and soaked. "What the fuck?!" My mouth fell open. I couldn't believe it was just a dream. A real wet dream. I could feel how wet the sheets were beneath me. And the phantom feeling of Kai's cock still inside me? Holy shit. I looked down and realized my hand was already between my legs, fingers circling my clit like they had a mind of their own. I hadn't even finished. I came again ... hard, sudden, and shameful ... biting down on my own wrist to stay quiet as the orgasm ripped through me. When it finally passed, I lay there staring at the ceiling, heart pounding in my ears. Damn. It was just a dream. Kai wasn't here. He never had been! I could hear him moving around downstairs, probably making coffee before morning skate. The familiar sound of my stepbrother existing in our house like he always had. My stomach twisted with guilt so strong it made me nauseous. I'd just had the filthiest, most desperate dream of my life about him. My stepbrother fucking me raw on the floor, calling me his, coming inside me over and over while telling me he'd wanted me for years. And the worst part? My body was still humming like it had been real. I pressed my thighs together and squeezed my eyes shut. This had to stop. These dreams had been getting worse for months! More vivid, more filthy, more impossible to ignore. Then I heard his footsteps coming up the stairs. My heart jumped into my throat. A second later, there was a soft knock on my door. "Isla? You up? I made coffee."Brick’s POVI watched the kid skate off toward the tunnel after the first session, shoulders locked tight, one hand hovering near his ribs like he expected the next hit to come from under his own jersey.A faint scent still hung in the air—powdery, soft, nothing like the usual locker-room musk. Not masculine enough. It clung even after he left, and I hated that I noticed.The crash kept replaying. The moment I’d caught him before he hit the ice, arm locking around his waist, his chest pressing against mine. Something had felt terribly wrong. My pulse had stuttered. Hard. Like my body had short-circuited against another man’s.Never happened before.“Fuck,” I muttered, low and frustrated. The idea was insane. I was normal. Not gay. So why the hell had that moment left me flushed? It wasn’t intimate. Just a save. Routine. Yet my skin still remembered the exact shape of him against me.Rook glided up beside me, stick across his shoulders. “Yo, everything alright?”I kept my eyes on the
The practice rink felt colder when it was empty. No crowd noise. No boards rattling from other drills. Just the low hum of the refrigeration system and the sharp scrape of three pairs of skates already waiting for me at center ice. Maddox “Brick” stood tall and broad, silence making the empty rink feel colder still. Callahan “Rook” circled him, stick tapping the ice as he muttered something I couldn’t hear. Honestly, I didn’t care. Gary “Tank” leaned against the boards, arms crossed, watching me like he already didn’t trust me. Annoying. I’d picked up their nicknames by accident last season while stuck on the bench, watching the veterans. Brick. Rook. Tank. I’d learned enough from the sidelines to know they liked getting inside a rookie’s head just for fun. The way they watched me now made it clear they planned the same for me. I stepped onto the ice and felt every inch of the binding pull tight across my ribs. “Sterling.” Brick’s voice carried without effort. “Drop the stic
POV SLOANEEight months ago, I stopped being Sloane Sterling. I became Jaxson Sterling instead. My twin brother's name. His roster spot. His number. His entire life, stuffed into a hockey bag and carried across the country while he lay unconscious in a hospital bed. It wasn't supposed to happen this way. Jaxson was supposed to be the one walking into preseason camp, not me. But when his career, his future, and everything he'd worked for suddenly hung in the balance, I made a choice I couldn't take back. I cut my hair, learned how to lower my voice, changed the way I walked, and started binding my chest beneath layers of compression and hockey gear. I memorized his stats, his habits, his favorite plays, even the stupid stories his teammates told about him. After eight months, I'd gotten good at being Jaxson. There was only one problem. My brother had patience. I had a temper.That temper got me into trouble halfway through the second period. The opposing defenseman caught me with
POV SloaneEight months ago, my brother forgot how to wake up.I remember thinking that was the strangest way to describe what had happened. The doctors never called it sleep. They called it unconsciousness, and they spoke in careful voices that made everything sound less frightening than it was. But I knew my brother. Jaxson didn’t sleep this long. He didn’t stay still. He didn’t lie quietly while machines breathed for him. He was the kind of person who could never sit through an entire movie without getting up for snacks, never walk past a hockey rink without stopping to watch, and never accept losing without demanding another chance. Even as kids, if I beat him at anything, he would insist on a rematch before I’d even put the game away. Now I could hold his hand for hours and get nothing in return.I sat beside him that morning, watching pale light creep through the hospital blinds. His face looked peaceful, which somehow made everything worse. The bruises from the accident ha
“Don’t go changing your mind on me.” Kai murmured as his hand moved over me. There was a dangerous intensity in his eyes now, something barely restrained, like all the desire he had kept buried for so long had finally broken loose. “I won’t.” Heat rushed through me, but beneath it came a flicker of fear. Not fear of him, exactly, but of how much I wanted this… how easily I could lose myself in everything I had spent so long trying to deny. My heart raced as I held his gaze. Oh My God! I wanted him. And somehow, that frightened me more than anything. The steering wheel dug into my back. And now… his hands were everywhere… under my shirt, up my skirt, and gripping my ass and yanking me down so I felt exactly how hard he was. “Fuck, Isla,” he groaned against my mouth. “I’ve been holding back for months. Watching you. Wanting you. And then I walk in and he’s got his tongue in your mouth—”He bit my lower lip hard enough to make me gasp, then soothed the sting with a gentle kiss.“D
Kai’s eyes locked on mine across the chaos, the fight still simmering under his skin. For a second… the whole kitchen seemed to hold its breath. Then something in him snapped.He tore free from the teammates holding him, shoved past Sarah, and closed the distance in three long strides. His hand closed around my wrist, not hard enough to hurt, but firm enough that there was no mistaking the intent.“We’re leaving!”I widened my eyes in disbelief. “Excuse me?”“Now!”“I’m not leaving because you got jealous and decided to pick a fight!”His eyes flashed. “Jealous?”“Yes! Jealous. I’ve asked you, Kai, to explain yourself!” I shouted. I genuinely didn’t understand Kai’s erratic behavior. He’s really out of his mind.A few people nearby suddenly found the floor incredibly interesting. I heard their footsteps approaching.Kai stepped closer and whispered in a grumpy voice that sent shiver down my spine. “You were kissing Asher.”“And?”“And you were letting him touch you.”I laughed once,







