Fast and Loaded: A Bad Boy Sports Romance by Roxy Sinclaire Page B
Authors: Roxy Sinclaire
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you hadn’t of pushed me into that stupid late night race, then this wouldn’t have happened. Or if you had bothered to check the car. This whole situation is your fault. Luke has never gotten to me like this, at least not until you came around. I can’t believe that you let this happen!”
She didn’t say anything; I thought it was because she knew I was right. For the first time since I had met her, Amber was silent. I didn’t know how to react without her banter coming back at me. I picked up the wrench she had thrown at me and launched it across the room in the opposite direction of her and the car. The sound of it hitting the window and shattering the glass was deafening.
“I have worked so hard to get to this point in my life. I put everything on hold. My parents died in a car crash, but still I pushed through the pain to follow my dream. My father left me Theresa when he died. He knew that she was my whole life, and you have taken that away from me. You and that foolish bet of yours. I hope you are happy with what you have done.” I ended my rant and spun around.
As I stomped out the front door, I could hear the crew waking up from the sound of the glass breaking, but I didn’t turn back around. I didn’t want to deal with any of them. With Theresa gone, there was no reason for me to deal with any of them anymore. I had never, in all my life, failed at anything I put my mind to. This was a first for me. Now I was going to have to forfeit the race all together.
Just as I reached the outskirts of the track, my phone started to vibrate. I looked down and saw it was Glen. The fact that he was up so early was startling to me. He was like me, never one for mornings. I didn’t want to talk to anyone, but I knew him well enough to know that he would just keep calling. He had friends on the pit crew; I could guess what the call was about.
“What?” I barked into the phone.
“What the hell man? James just told me that you ripped into Amber?” Glen mumbled, obviously still half asleep.
“Theresa is dead. She can’t be fixed after last night, so yeah, I ripped into her. It was her fault; she was the one who wanted me to race.” I told him.
Each time I said the words, I felt like a child. I slowed down as I started to realize that I had approached everything wrong.
“Dude, Amber is a saint to you. She didn’t jack up Theresa. You went into that race on your own free will. With fifty people around, who knows how Luke even slipped that filter off to start with?”
His words made sense, but I wasn’t ready to admit that just yet. I knew that I had taken out my anger on the wrong person. Amber hadn’t done anything wrong, but I had treated her worse than I had ever even treated Luke. Thinking about everything that I had said to her, I cringed again.
“Oh shit,” I muttered.
Glen chuckled, “Yeah Desmond, you screwed this one up pretty bad. If you have feelings for her, you better find a way to fix it and fix it fast. James said you almost made him want to curl up in a ball and die. He heard the whole thing, and he’s a tough fella.”
“Yeah, I was a real dick.” I agreed, “What am I going to do?”
16
Amber
I couldn’t believe everything that Desmond had just said to me. My heart felt like it was breaking into a thousand little pieces. For the first time since my father’s death, I felt a tear run down my cheek. How could he have been so mean? I stood there, in stunned silence while the shop around me started to wake up. It was still early, but Desmond’s outburst must have woken the entire track.
Taking a deep breath, I tried to pull myself together. Everything he said was right. I was the one who had pushed him to enter the race, and I should have checked the car before he left last night. When had Luke ever not taken the opportunity to show Desmond just how much damage he could do to Theresa? Now, it was too late. There was nothing that I could do to fix the engine.
I stood there,
She didn’t say anything; I thought it was because she knew I was right. For the first time since I had met her, Amber was silent. I didn’t know how to react without her banter coming back at me. I picked up the wrench she had thrown at me and launched it across the room in the opposite direction of her and the car. The sound of it hitting the window and shattering the glass was deafening.
“I have worked so hard to get to this point in my life. I put everything on hold. My parents died in a car crash, but still I pushed through the pain to follow my dream. My father left me Theresa when he died. He knew that she was my whole life, and you have taken that away from me. You and that foolish bet of yours. I hope you are happy with what you have done.” I ended my rant and spun around.
As I stomped out the front door, I could hear the crew waking up from the sound of the glass breaking, but I didn’t turn back around. I didn’t want to deal with any of them. With Theresa gone, there was no reason for me to deal with any of them anymore. I had never, in all my life, failed at anything I put my mind to. This was a first for me. Now I was going to have to forfeit the race all together.
Just as I reached the outskirts of the track, my phone started to vibrate. I looked down and saw it was Glen. The fact that he was up so early was startling to me. He was like me, never one for mornings. I didn’t want to talk to anyone, but I knew him well enough to know that he would just keep calling. He had friends on the pit crew; I could guess what the call was about.
“What?” I barked into the phone.
“What the hell man? James just told me that you ripped into Amber?” Glen mumbled, obviously still half asleep.
“Theresa is dead. She can’t be fixed after last night, so yeah, I ripped into her. It was her fault; she was the one who wanted me to race.” I told him.
Each time I said the words, I felt like a child. I slowed down as I started to realize that I had approached everything wrong.
“Dude, Amber is a saint to you. She didn’t jack up Theresa. You went into that race on your own free will. With fifty people around, who knows how Luke even slipped that filter off to start with?”
His words made sense, but I wasn’t ready to admit that just yet. I knew that I had taken out my anger on the wrong person. Amber hadn’t done anything wrong, but I had treated her worse than I had ever even treated Luke. Thinking about everything that I had said to her, I cringed again.
“Oh shit,” I muttered.
Glen chuckled, “Yeah Desmond, you screwed this one up pretty bad. If you have feelings for her, you better find a way to fix it and fix it fast. James said you almost made him want to curl up in a ball and die. He heard the whole thing, and he’s a tough fella.”
“Yeah, I was a real dick.” I agreed, “What am I going to do?”
16
Amber
I couldn’t believe everything that Desmond had just said to me. My heart felt like it was breaking into a thousand little pieces. For the first time since my father’s death, I felt a tear run down my cheek. How could he have been so mean? I stood there, in stunned silence while the shop around me started to wake up. It was still early, but Desmond’s outburst must have woken the entire track.
Taking a deep breath, I tried to pull myself together. Everything he said was right. I was the one who had pushed him to enter the race, and I should have checked the car before he left last night. When had Luke ever not taken the opportunity to show Desmond just how much damage he could do to Theresa? Now, it was too late. There was nothing that I could do to fix the engine.
I stood there,
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