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“We are, but my parents want me to attend college. To be the first Mason to go to college,” Luke explains. “Nick and I talked, and we don’t know shit about running a business, so we decided to go to college and learn how.”

“You’re not upset, are you?” Luke wraps his arm around me.

“No, why would I be upset?”

“We just moved in here.” He points to the house. “And now we’re going to have to move to Georgia.”

“And we’ll have to move again when you’re done.” I smile.

I walk over to Paige. “Congratulations, Paige. I’m proud of you. And you, too, Sam.”

“Dinner’s ready. Let’s eat,” Robert says.

“Wait, where’s Nick?” I glance around.

“He won’t come down.” Cin frowns. “He says he’s too close.”

CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE

SHELBY

My alarm wakes me up the next morning.

I stretch out, surprised to find myself alone in bed. When I headed to bed around one, the party was going strong, and the guys were plastered.

Since I dislike drinking the day before a race, I sipped on one drink the entire night.

Before I head downstairs, I check the other bedrooms, all empty. That’s not a good sign.

In the kitchen, a bleary-eyed Cin makes coffee.

“Do you know where the guys are?”

“They were on their second game of pool when I came upstairs to sleep on the couch in your room. Did you check their bedrooms?”

Sleeping on my couch isn’t a good sign. She spends most of her time down here and not with Nick. After this race, I need to chat with him.

“Empty. They were drunk when I went to bed. It should be fun waking them up.”

“Let them sleep for a bit.” She sips her coffee.

I pour myself some, too. “We’ll be moving to Georgia for four years.”

She cups her hands around her mug and stares at the contents.

“Cin, what’s going on? Talk to me.”

She sighs. “Things haven’t been going well between us. We’ve been fighting a lot… when he’s even talking to me. I don’t know who this Nick is. He’s obsessed with finding Roger. We haven’t had a chance to talk about Georgia.”

I glance at her over my mug. “Don’t you want to move to Georgia?”

“I didn’t want to move here. I planned on working in Dad’s garage. Garage owners don’t want to hire a kid right out of high school, no matter how much training they’ve had.” Cin inhales her coffee. “I plan on staying here for the summer, then returning home.”

Eek. “What about you and Nick?”

She lowers her head as she shakes it.

I sigh. “Well, shit, that dampens today’s fun.”

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