27 Dates: The Race Date by B. N. Hale

Author:B. N. Hale [Hale, B. N.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Snowlight Publishing
Published: 2018-06-21T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

They raced up the first stretch and into a turn, putting Kate on the inside as she steered into the curve. Reed hung with her, accelerating around the outside and into a short straightaway. Then the track banked left. As Kate slowed for the turn Reed punched it, pulling on the brake as he drifted around the corner, his tires squealing.

He grinned as he swerved past her and into the lead, the tight turn pushing him several feet ahead of Kate’s kart. Over the squeal of tires and growling engines he heard Kate shout, but he was already gone. Accelerating into another drift, he swerved around the corner and sped away, leaving Kate in the dust.

Speeding around the corners, he relished the pull of the kart, the familiar feel of the tires slipping on the concrete. Three times around the track and he came to a screeching halt across the finish line. He turned off the engine and a moment later she stopped beside him. Then she yanked her helmet off and glared.

“What in the—”

The door clattered open and Roman appeared in the opening. “You just beat the lap record—my lap record. How did you do that?”

Reed pulled off his helmet and stepped out of the kart. “After my parents split up my dad decided he wanted to start a small business, and bought a go-kart track in a neighboring town. Part of the agreement was for the previous owner to show my dad how to run the place. The guy used to be a professional racer so he really knew how to drive. I spent most of the first month racing with him. Within a year my dad had driven the track into the ground, but I still remember how to drive.”

Kate began to laugh, the sound building with amusement and chagrin. “Did you know this was our date for the night?” She glanced at Roman as if he’d betrayed her, but he raised his hands helplessly.

“No idea,” Reed said. “But the moment you said go-karts all the memories came flooding back.”

“Get back in your kart,” she said. “You’re going to teach me how to do that.”

Reed raised an eyebrow and looked to Roman. “We might clip the walls a bit.”

“I have time to fix it,” Roman said, and then smiled. “I’ll watch you and then practice it on my own. I can already imagine Jerry’s face when I show him what I can do.”

He disappeared and Reed sank back into the kart. Then Kate called out to him. “You know, I wasn’t prepared for this.”

“For the track?” Reed asked, pausing in donning his helmet.

“For all the surprises,” she said, her eyes on him. “I keep thinking I have you figured out, but then you come up with something like this.” She swept her hand at the track.

“I haven’t driven a kart in fifteen years,” he said. “Not since my dad lost the track. It’s not exactly a normal topic of conversation.”

“You never took a date to do it?”

Reed cocked his head to the side.

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