Page 66 of Love Collided

By the time I found a place to park next to their cars, I had to text Fox, and he let me know they were walking around on the other side of the makeshift track.

A pretty blonde woman walked past me, smiling as she went, but I was only looking for red.

Red hair that felt like silk around my hand, and hazel eyes that got wide when she watched me get off, and a perfect face that couldn’t hide any emotion.

Addicted might have been an understatement.

I’ve been chasing any feeling for months and coming up short, but now I managed to find every single emotion wrapped up in one adorable, feisty package.

I saw the crew gathered around a car, but no sign of Scout. For a minute, I wondered if she would flake out on race night just to avoid me more. If she really thought she was going to hide from me forever, she was wrong. I don’t know if I could let her now.

Fox nodded to me, and Kye followed his gaze.

“Hey, I didn’t know you were coming tonight,” Kye said.

“He’s coming with us later, too,” Ransom said.

Later, where they had invited me to go out with them. I wasn’t sure where we were going, but I didn’t honestly care.

“You’re hanging out with us later?” Scout’s voice broke through the crowd, and she stepped closer to the group. My stomach flipped, and I clenched my abs, trying to make it stop.

“Yep. Mad that you’re stuck with me again?”

“Oh no, not atall.” Scout turned, rolling her eyes as she said something to Quinn that I couldn’t hear, but Fox interrupted.

“Did you tell Chase about your trip yet?” Fox asked. Her eyes went wide a bit, and I realized they didn’t know I went with her.

How fun.

“Trip? Where did you go?” I asked, probably overplaying the innocent act, but I didn’t care. She said she didn’t want anything else to happen between us, so what did it matter how I acted?

“She had a part for your car to get. Only dealerships had it and they were absolute assholes about shipping it,” Ransom said. “Quinn tried for an hour before giving up. Scout ended up driving up there.”

“I’m surprised she didn’t demand payment or something,” Fox said, messing with something on his car.

“I did find her digging in my wallet. I just assumed she was a thief.”

Scout smacked my stomach. “You can assume it was an expensive trip, and I wasn’t doing it out of pure kindness.”

“No? And here I thought you treated all your customers with such…warmth and affection.”

“Nope, that’s all reserved for you,” she said, trying to make light of it with a laugh, but I could see the red bloom across her cheeks and nose.

Damn right it was all reserved for me.

The need to drag her away and kiss her was getting to me. The restless ache not being soothed by anything other than her.

It had been exactly three days since we had been sitting in that motel room together, which made three days since I’ve had any other thought in my mind besides her coming undone underneath me. Even seeing her yesterday wasn’t enough. I hadn’t been able to kiss or touch her and that only made this gnawing ache worse.

The crew was talking about something to do with the races tonight, and I moved closer to Scout’s side.

“I’m so glad to know that I’m the only one getting special treatment.”

“Youwerethe only one getting special treatment. Past tense because it is no longer happening.”

My hand moved down her back, sliding over her ass. The car hid us from the crew enough that I tried not to make it too obvious, but I was caring less and less as the need to touch her grew.

I squeezed once, and she smacked at my hand. “We are in public,” she hissed, as she stepped farther away.

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