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I turned around only to see Holt standing behind him, fear written all over his face. “I... He...”
“You attacked him unprovoked.” Miles gritted his teeth.
I shook my head. “He wrecked me on purpose!” I reminded him.
“I did,” Shepard confessed. “I’m having a shitty month. It was all my fault. This is on me.”
I glanced over my shoulder to find Shepard watching us, blood caked on his face from where I’d hit him. Hutch stood next to him with the same look Miles had on his face.
“I’ll take all the blame for this. I deserved it. I took out my frustration on Watts because he was an easy target. Uh, I’m sorry, man.” He gripped the back of his neck, not meeting my eyes.
What the hell had just happened?
“NASCAR wants to talk to you both.” Miles grunted. “Doesn’t matter that Rand just took the blame. This entire thing was on live TV, and you waited around for him to get out of his car. Go.” He pushed my shoulder.
I walked two steps before I moved around Miles, grabbed Holt, and wrapped my arms around him in a tight hug. When he returned the embrace, it didn’t matter what happened because I had the love of this man. Which I didn’t deserve. I resisted the urge to kiss him but gave Holt a wink before Shepard and I walked off like we were headed to the principal’s office.
“How’s your head?” he asked.
“Hurts. How’s your nose?”
He chuckled. “I think you broke it.”
“Lucky that’s all I did. I wanted to choke the shit out of you,” I admitted.
Shepard stopped right outside the door to the hauler. “Do you know who my brother is?” he asked.
“Uh, Eli? Sure, man, everyone does. He’s a fucking legend.”
The way his eyes flickered with contempt told me he didn’t feel the same way as everyone else. Eli Shepard was the top NASCAR driver a few years before I got here, until his drug problem ruined everything. Rand and Eli were closer than anyone, until Eli disappeared one night in a drug-induced haze. Or at least, that’s what the rumors said.
Shepard popped his jaw. “Yeah, well, the legend is back.” He pushed opened the door to the hauler without saying anything else, and I followed him inside.
Chapter Fourteen
Watson
