The Secret Billionaire Heiress Strikes Back
He checked his tires, tightened his helmet strap, and waited for his name to be called, certain that the worst thing that could happen to him tonight was finishing somewhere outside the top three.
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The staging area smelled like gasoline and hot rubber, the specific industrial scent of machines built for speed rather than comfort. Dante stood beside the car Marcello's people had assigned him — sleek, dark, deliberately unremarkable from the outside, the kind of vehicle designed to draw no attention until the moment it needed to outrun everything around it.