Page 59 of Crash Course Omega
We’re both going to fucking do it.
We’re going to take it home for the Grace team.
Even though it grates that Jaxx will get the first. It feels fucking annoying to be proud of us, but we’ve never won like this since we started driving together.
But I still want that number one spot.
Harmony will be there as we cross the finish line, and I want her to see me come in first more than anything.
I need to make sure I’m the one she sees when we pull up.
So I put my head down, watch the rear of my asshole teammate, and we race.
The world fades away as all I think about is getting back to Harmony.
This is how I used to race in the past. With my foot to the floor and my eyes on my omega.
We hurl into the speed trap with maybe twenty seconds left on the lap. There’s nothing holding us back now.
Except this one moment, This one tiny moment where I’m flying in to overtake, and Jaxx takes the ninety degree too tight. He has to slam on the brakes, pulling up, letting me cut over him.
One glance at him, one fucking salute hidden from the drone following us around, and I sail past him and out from the corner and into the hairpin.
It’s like a fucking gut punch as I shoot ahead of him.
I need to win, I need the points. But not this way. This doesn’t feel right as Jaxx pretends to fumble, slicing left then right like he’s lost control and draws up behind me.
Suddenly the tension is gone, the need to win choked out of me. A growl tears from me as disappointment swamps me.
I won’t forgive him for this. There’s no way I can let him get away with it.
As I speed towards the last corner, I have a clear advantage over him, and there is nothing stopping me as I swing around the last ninety degrees, and roar through the checkered flag.
But it’s a hollow win. It doesn’t feel like mine as Jaxx burns through behind me, keeping myself and the Grace team at the top of the leaderboard for the entire championships.
It doesn’t matter. I’ve strived for years to get to a level where I can win firsts race after race.
I don’t want to win like this.
There’s only one thing I want now.
To get back to my omega as she jumps up and down on the other side of the barrier, waving at me from the crowd.
Maddock
“What the hell was that?” I growl at Jaxx, who just shrugs.
We’re right on the grid, free from our cars, and there’s no one else around us yet. But the cheers and shouts of our team as they wait for us on the barrier to my right echoes in my ears.
We’ve never done so well. We’re on the fast track to winning every single fucking thing this season, but we’re not going to manage it if I feel like this.
“That was a fantastic race, you really shone there,” Jaxx says with a smirk.
“Don’t fuck with me,” I say. “That wasn’t a win.”
“You got across the line first. That counts as a win. Come on, Maddock, you won the Texas Grand Prix!” He spreads out hisarms like he’s about to hug me. “Do you know how jealous I am?”
I’m two seconds from punching him when a shout booms out from behind me.
