Nyelle Nico smiled the moment he reached me, a helmet tucked beneath his arm. "Welcome back. I missed you around here." The words hit me harder than I expected. After five years away, I wasn't sure how this place would feel, but the familiar smell of gasoline and burning tires, the roar of engines, and the loud music surrounding us had already answered that question. Then Nico asked, "How's your husband?" The warmth disappeared immediately. I raised my hands and signed, "I don't want to talk about him." Nico's expression shifted, but he didn't press further. "Alright." That was one of the things I had always appreciated about him. He never made communicating with me feel difficult or exhausting. Years ago, he had learned sign language without me ever asking him to. Vincent had lived beside me for five years and had never bothered. "So," Nico said, clapping his hands together as he turned toward the track, "we need to see if you've still got it before I let you back out there."
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