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We were alht asinto my lane!" he sneered "Or maybe you just don’t kno to handle your car"
I alhed
"There are no lanes on the track" Idiot "And let’s not talk about who can’t handle their reasy, black hair slicked back, pointed his finger in my face "I’ll tell you what, Princess Corown so wheels Then you’ll be e cans slah?" I asked,sureI’d ever heard Spinning around to address the gathering crowd, I held up h?"
They knew better, most of them my classmates
And, as if on cue, Piper stepped out of the crowd and headed straight for ht to contain their excitelued her body to mine, with her hand on my ass, and kissed me slow and deep
It was like an invisible pair of arrasp, and I had to rerabbed her and ran ue touching mine
This hat I needed
Piper was easy
But as the crowd roared at our display, h
She tasted like ash
Tate flashed through my head, and so did the memory of herRo
"Okay!" Zack cut through the crowd "Out of the way, out of the way"
Piper s friends who giggled
"Listen up We have so more to the crowd than to Ro a tie"
Everyone groaned and a few cussed
Jesus Christ I let out a breath
"But, the good news is," he rushed to add, "we have a way to solve the stalerin that made bile rise in my throat Zack could be devious
"A rematch?" I hoped
"Kind of" His smile widened "If you boys want to settle this, then your cars will race again, but…you won’t be the drivers"
My eyes burned I couldn’t blink
What the fk?
"Excuseinto Zack’s space
"We know you’re exceptional drivers," Zack assured "The race was close enough to prove that Let’s see who has the betterto drive the cars?" I shouted
Zack’s lips thinned out "Your girlfriends"
WHAT?
"Oh, yeah!" soreat entertain athered closer to hear the fall-out, and yes, there was going to be a fall-out Roree that this idea sucked, while irls race
"Dude! That’s not happening!" Roirlfriend She was cute as hell, but the petite brunette looked like she had just enoughabout how Tate would do against her
Nope Don’t go there
"Zack," I sighed "I don’t have a girlfriend I never have a girlfriend"
"What about the pretty little thing you arrived with?"
I twisted ravated look I assu about her
Her eyes about popped out of her head when she saw our attention focused on her
"He’s just my rebound," she held up her hands and joked The crowd covered theirme like I should be hurt
KC couldn’t help but smile at her cleverness, and I raisedhe understood
"No one drives ree with the Princess here," Roman piped up "This is stupid"
"The crowd’s already seen you two race They want to be entertained If you two have any interest in settling this score so people can get paid, then you’ll play itline in five minutes or leave" He turned to walk away but stopped "Oh, and you can ride shotgun if you like…you know, for moral support" The last words broke up as they left his lips
The dickhead was laughing at us
"This is bullshit" I coh my hair and walked back towards Madoc and KC as Rohtened and fisted ain If Zack weren’t a friend, I ht have to cut him
Even if it weren’t for the e was a challenge If Ro out, neither was I
"Hey, man I could drive for you," Madoc spoke up "We’d just have to tell the to cheerhis foot in his ood crowd at the garage where I worked and had run into a few in the scene here and there, but the only girls I knew here tonight were the ones I’d slept with or had classes with
And I didn’t trust any of them
"Jared, I can’t race for you," KC pointed out as if I didn’t know "There’s got to be so herNot only would she say no, but she’d probably spit in
Don’t act like you have a choice
Shit
This hen I wanted to hop in the car and drive away Making hard decisions and accepting when others’ needs came before my own hurt, but…I didn’t have a choice