Pace Laps (Racing on the Edge Book 10) by Shey Stahl Page B

me?” He let out a breathy laugh kissing my forehead. “I was a wreck out there.”
    “I know.”
    Angling my face so I could look into his eyes, his expression of undying love made my heart skip.
    “I know what you mean, though. All this time I was so afraid of the unknown. It was killing me to not be able to control the outcome. And while you were in surgery, they kept coming out and telling us it was taking longer than expected. I felt like I couldn’t breathe.”
    “Is that when you decided to commit assault on a vending machine?”
    He laughed lightly and I couldn’t help but smile because hearing his laugh was everything to me.
    “I needed Skittles.”
    “You and your candy.”
    The room was quiet for a moment, the buzzing from the machines next to me the only sound besides our breathing. Jameson took in a deep breath, his chest rising and then falling slowly. “I don’t know what I would have done if you hadn’t made it through this.”
    I knew what he meant because he wouldn’t have. I was like his torsion bar stop, holding him in a fixed place. Believe it or not, I could raise and lower his car by using an adjustment bolt. The same went for me. Together we knew the adjustments we needed to make and if that stop hadn’t been there, there was no telling what kind of setup we’d be left with.

Choke Linkage – On a carbureted engine, the assembly of parts that controls a valve that limits incoming cold air until the engine reaches operating temperature and is able to vaporize fuel more efficiently.
     

    After Sway’s surgery, the end of the season fast approached and before I knew it, Christmas had arrived. She still showed people her tits, but thankfully, it didn’t happen daily anymore. After a few complications with her overdoing it, she healed nicely and you wouldn’t even know she had breast cancer. She still went back monthly after the surgery for checkups but she’d just been cleared to come back every six months now. Things were beginning to look up for us.
    We renewed our vows a few weeks back, but I wanted something more for her. Something she’d always wanted. A white Christmas in the mountains with around thirty people in hopes to all get along and have a nice holiday.
    It was a stupid fucking idea.
    But I would also never admit it because it was, in fact, my fucking stupid idea to do this. Nope. Never happening.
    Truth was, I wanted to give Sway everything she deserved and more. After everything she went through over the summer with the cancer and surgery, she needed to know we were all there for her and with her. Every year she talked about wanting a big family Christmas. What better way to give her that than in the one place she loved to get away to in the winter. Vail Colorado. At least that was my plan.
    Turning to Sway, I wanted to brighten my mood. We were flying commercial because apparently, I was full of fucking stupid ideas and thought Sway would enjoy all of us traveling together to Vail. My bright idea only further succeeded to put me in a grumpy mood, but I wanted something to take my mind off the insanity of this idea. What better way to do that than with my wife.
    I started out by asking if she wanted to go to the bathroom with me for a little align boring. She shot me down immediately.
    “You know you want to.” I gave my most convincing voice.
    “No, actually I don’t.” She wouldn’t even look at me.
    I could be very convincing when I needed to be, so I upped my game by whispering in her ear. “Yes, yes you do.”
    She pushed me back by placing her palm on my face. “Jameson, I do not want to have sex on an airplane again.” Then she gave me the look. “You do remember the last time, right?”
    I didn’t answer because unfortunately, I did though I tried to block that memory out of us on the plane to Rio and that shithead kid beating on the door.
    “ Casten !” Arie screamed at her brother two rows back from us. “You motherfucker!”
    Sway sighed,