“Wow. Awesome. The sponsor’s going to love this.” She squeezed his hand. “Thanks, Mick. Now watch the race.”
“Turn the page.”
She glanced at the racetrack with a pained expression. “Oookay,” she mouthed slowly with a warning look.
She flipped to the page, and he watched her eyes fall on the sidebar story with a picture of him. And another of her wearing his Manchester United T-shirt. She tapped the headline: Romance Rumors Circle the Track.
She laughed softly. “Well, for once the rumors are right. And,” she added with a wink, “you look hot. Can I watch the race now?”
“Not until you read the last paragraph.”
She barely suppressed a sigh. He watched her finger slide down the page and studied her face as she read the words he’d memorized.
Of all the rumors swirling about, the most surprising one is that Mick Churchill plans to ask Shelby Jackson to marry him, keeping Thunder Racing the family-owned team it has always been. He confirmed this late last week. “I’ve told her from the day we met that I’m going to sit next to her at Daytona and ask her to give me the ultimate answer—yes or no.”
She looked up at him. “Typical media. They took that whole quote out of context.”
“No they didn’t.”
As he said it, the entire racetrack rocked with a tidal wave of deafening sound. Everyone stood and screamed, and about thirty-five thousand horses of raw power surged into a blur of color.
But she didn’t look at the track. She just stared at him.
“They didn’t?”
He shook his head very slowly.
Her mouth opened in a little O shape, but no sound came out.
“Yes or no, Shelby Jackson?” He mouthed the words.
The pack rolled by, so loud he couldn’t have heard her if she screamed. But she didn’t have to. The answer was in her eyes. Yes.
Instead she held her finger to her lips and smiled. “Shhh. Don’t mess with the track magic.”
ISBN: 978-1-55254-854-7
THUNDERSTRUCK
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