Kayla’s POVThe air felt heavier as we lined up on the tracks.It was the kind of tension that crawled under the skin, the kind that made your heart pound even before the race began. I rolled my shoulders, breathing in slowly, my gaze moving over my teammates one after the other.“This one,” I whispered as quietly as I could, leaning toward them, “we take first place.”They looked at me, brows furrowed, sweat already beading on their temples.“For Mel,” I added softly.The name alone seemed to settle something between us. Mel, the woman who had run the last lap in the previous race. The woman who should have been here today. The woman who would never run again.“She deserves that,” my teammate murmured, nodding.Across the tracks, I could feel Vivian’s presence without looking at her. It was like a static charge in the air, sharp and restless.The official raise
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