Thrust: Bad Boy Racing Romance (Fastlane Series Book 2) (37 page)

“Why are you laughing? There is nothing funny about this, Marco! If you think this is so easy, why don’t you handle the rest of the details and I’ll…”

With that, Marco slapped his hands down on top of the table and stood up from his chair.

“Shut up, Dani. Just shut the hell up.”

Furious, I dropped my jaw at him.

“Don’t you…” I began, preparing to unleash on him.

Marco raised his index finger to his lips.

“Shhh…”

At the same time, he reached inside of the pocket of his sport coat and a moment later, pulled out a piece of paper. I wrinkled my brow at him, still agitated over his behavior the past few minutes. He waved it front of my face.

“Would you like to guess what this is?”

“No.” I huffed. “Nothing you could show me right now would make up for the way you’ve been teasing me.”

He nodded, unfolding the paper and looking at it. He read it in silence for several moments, his lower lip protruding while he did.

“Well?” I said, my frustration beginning to reach a new level. “Are you going to tell me what that is or not?”

Marco looked at me.

“I thought you said that you didn’t want to know what it was.”

Without saying a word, I snatched the paper from Marco’s hands and walked away from him.

“Hey!” he called out.

“That’s what you get for being a jerk!”

I scanned the page. It looked to be a lot of legal mumbo-jumbo, most of which I glossed right over until I reached the bottom of the page. There, the very last paragraph and both signatures spelled out everything. I raised my hand to my mouth, covering it. Turning around to face Marco, I pointed at the document.

“Does this mean what I think it means?”

Marco shrugged, closing the gap between us. He smiled.

“Yep,” he began, winking at me. “I’m single and ready to mingle.”

I slapped him across the upper arm. Before I could get a word out, Marco grabbed hold of me, pulled me into his body and we began to kiss. After several moments we separated and I looked into his eyes.

“I don’t want to be with anyone else, Dani. Now that my annulment is final, there’s nothing standing between us and a lifetime of happiness together.”

I averted my eyes, looking down at the annulment decree once more.

Marco continued. “If I’ve learned one thing from the death of my father, it’s that I don't want to wait to start living.”

I drew my eyes up towards his again.

“What do you mean?”

Marco slipped his hands around my waist and pulled my hips into his.

“I’m ready to start my own family.
Our family
, Dani.”

I swallowed, fighting to find a breath to reply. But before I could, Marco spoke again.

“I want you to be my wife. I want to be married to you and create an incredible future together. That is, of course, if you’ll have me.”

By now, my eyes started to warm with the heat of tears. I nodded, leaning into him and wrapping my arms around his shoulders. The tears flowed, but for once, they weren’t the kind that hurt, but healed.

“I love you Dani.”

I sniffled and pulled my head away from his chest. Marco reached up and thumbed my tears away my cheeks.

“I love you too, Marco. More than anything. Of course I’ll marry you.”

We kissed, embracing each other again. The annulment decree slipped from my fingers and sailed to the ground. Thanks to his father’s fortune, we’d work together to save children's lives the world over.

But that night, holding each other close, we started by saving each other.

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Dyson Vix. The bad boy of Formula One Racing.

The first time I met him he was completely naked, and he couldn’t have cared less.

The second time I saw Dyson, he just stood there, staring at me. His fire suit hung low on his waist, and his body was dripping in sweat, grease and… well, you get the idea.

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Excerpt from “Surge” (Book #1 in the Fastlane Series)

It wasn’t the first time I’d seen a man’s bare ass first thing in the morning.

But one that…
perfect?

No.

Never.

With my fingers still wrapped around the door handle, I froze in place, my eyes inappropriately fixed on the man’s partially exposed, lean and muscular backside. Morning sunlight shined on him through the exam room window, casting the shadow of his hard body beneath the thin fabric of the exam gown.

I stood there for a moment too long, temporarily forgetting I was there to do my job. Just then, the man, who had been looking out the window, turned in my direction.

We locked eyes. He arched an eyebrow.

Shit.

As quickly and as subtly as I could, I averted my gaze and instead snapped my eyes to his chart which I held in my free hand. Around the same time, a strong odor of over-applied perfume entered my awareness. What’s worse, it smelled like a mix of cotton candy and sweat—cheap and tacky.

Continuing into the room, the source of the aroma appeared in my peripheral vision. To my left sat two women. One a blonde, the other, a redhead. They looked to be in their early to mid-twenties, around my age, and by the way they dressed, not from around here—Austin that is.

“Hello,” I said, flashing a polite smile at them.

Their eyes met mine with an icy glare. They didn’t respond.

I looked away from them and back towards the man.

“Mr.… Vix?”

He took an extra second to reply. His eyes wandered along my body.

Wow? Really?

At last, he nodded and looked at me. “Dyson,” he said.

The door to the exam room closed behind me with a hiss of the hydraulic swing arm.

“All right,” I began, shaking my head a bit. “Dyson… Dr. Wilcox will be in in just a moment. In the meantime, I need to check your vital signs.”

Dyson walked towards me and stopped about a foot or so away.

“Should I disrobe?”

I blinked. Clearing my throat, I stammered a response, “Um, n-no. That won’t be necessary.”

He winked at me. “Another time then.”

This had to be a joke.

I straightened my spine and nodded in the direction of the exam table. “Have a seat, Mr. Vix.”

But instead of walking towards the table, the man looked at me again.

“It’s Dyson.”

“Right, my apologies. Have a seat,
Dyson.
”

The thin tissue paper covering the length of the table crinkled and crackled as he sat down on it. Dyson swung his legs casually over the side and hooked his hands along the padded edge. Composing myself, I spent the next few minutes getting his vital signs without any further interruptions.

Once finished, I looked at him.

“Dyson, I need to draw some blood for the tests we’re required to take. Do needles bother you?”

My eyes locked on his. They were a shade of blue that I’d never seen before. Blueish gray, like steel. He reached up and slid his fingers through his dirty-blonde hair.

“Nope,” he replied with an easy shrug. “Don’t bother me at all.”

From behind, I sensed the two women watching our exchange. Their silence was the only clue I needed that they were more than just friends with him.

A couple of minutes later, I’d finished drawing his blood.

Only one thing remained before Dr. Wilcox would come in and conduct the full exam. I walked to the other side of the exam room, picked up a urine sample cup and made my way back towards him, extending it in his direction.

One corner of his mouth turned upward in a deviant curl. Wordless, he eased off the exam table, took it from me, and passed by on the way to the restroom, next to the entrance of the exam room.

My head moved on a swivel while he walked. Dyson made no effort to cinch up the back of his exam gown. He stopped, catching me looking yet again. However, instead of saying anything, he gestured over his shoulder towards the two women.

“Is it okay if I have some company?”

My mouth drifted open. “I…”

The expression on his face was indecipherable. Was he being serious? The truth was, no one ever asked me a question like that during an exam before. On the other hand, nothing about this exam was normal so far.