Whispers of Redemption (SECRETS OF WHISPERING PINES #2) by Holly Bowne EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Holly Bowne
- Language: English
- Genre: contemporary romance
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The sting of hot rubber burnout filled her nostrils as Cassie rolled
slowly up toward the starting line. As much as she didn’t want to be
here, she couldn’t deny the exhilaration flooding through her at the familiar
smell. Once more, she pulled the emergency brake, hit the clutch, and
shifted into first. She stood on the gas and released the clutch, grinning at
the familiar squeal of the 1992 Honda Civic’s tires against pavement. The
car danced forward a bit, like a horse ready to race. She glanced to her left
where pink and lavender streaks blended like a pastel watercolor along the
horizon and reflected off Lake Michigan’s ocean-like waves. It was all that
remained of the brilliant summer sunset from moments ago. Then she shot a
quick look at the driver on her right.
Brett Oliver sat behind the wheel of his 800-plus horsepower Mitsubishi
Evo, refusing to look back at her. His lips were compressed, knuckles
white, as he gripped the wheel. The shouts and cheers coming from the
small group of bystanders at the side of the road were drowned out by the
deafening roars of the two engines revving for takeoff, tires still smoking
from the burnout.
Patricio, a friend of Cassie’s younger foster sister Ani, strode over and
stood just in front of the noses of the two cars, his arms lifted to shoulder
height. He gave a slight nod at each driver. Then his hands dropped.
As usual, Brett jumped the line. But Cassie was ready for it. She hadn’t
been watching Patricio. She’d been watching Brett. She learned years ago
that whenever someone is about to go, they always do something with their
body. And she’d raced Brett enough times to know that right before he
dropped the clutch, he would shift his body forward. The instant he moved,
she went.
Cassie stuffed the accelerator and the car lurched forward. Ten miles per
hour off the starting line, she pulled ahead by a car length. Forty miles per
hour, she slammed it into second gear and shot further ahead, the tires
giving a brief chirp. At ninety miles per hour, the Evo pulled closer. But this
lasted for only about a hundredth of a second. With a grin, Cassie shifted
again and accelerated. Fast. In seconds, she was flying up the road at one
hundred and sixty miles per hour. The Civic shook from the speed as she
shot across the finish line.
Brett’s Evo rolled past as she completed a U-turn and looped back to the
starting line. The small crowd swarmed around her car. Whoops and cheers
floated through the air as hands reached through the open driver’s side
window to pat her shoulder in congratulations.
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