Dirt Driven by Stahl Shey

Author:Stahl, Shey [Stahl, Shey]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B086N2DXCM
Goodreads: 53670457
Publisher: Shey Stahl LLC
Published: 2020-10-09T07:00:00+00:00

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FEDERATED AUTO PARTS RACEWAY AT I-55

PEVELY, MISSOURI

“I’m sorry I didn’t call.”

“Sorry?” Rager raised an eyebrow at me and I couldn’t miss the irritation in his voice. “I didn’t hear from you for two fucking days, Arie. Do you know how worried I was?”

“I told you, Bristol dropped my phone and it broke. I couldn’t call out.” I continued to load the groceries I’d bought on the way to the track. Cilantro, cheese, lettuce, tortillas, all tossed haphazardly into our fridge because I didn’t know how I was going to tell him about my appointment. And I couldn’t look him in the eye. I was petrified, too, because I knew I’d start crying.

“You could have gotten a new one.”

My heart kicked up in my chest, a loud hard thump I couldn’t ignore. “I could have, but I didn’t until I got back into Charlotte. Come on.” I sighed and set down the canvas bag I’d carried everything in on the counter. “I don’t want to argue about this.”

“I’m not arguing with you.” He turned to face me and leaned his hip into the counter, his arms crossed over his chest. Our eyes met. “I’m upset. There’s a difference.”

I moved closer to him and circled my arms around his waist. “And I said I was sorry.”

His lips pressed to my forehead, almost automatically. “What did the doctor say?”

“They did a biopsy and it came back fine.”

Though he looked relieved, he knew. “So why the look on your face?”

“I have the breast cancer gene.”

His breath caught and he pulled away from me. “What does that mean?”

I stood in front of him, fearing what I was about to tell him. “It means I have a mutation in the gene that makes it more likely to divide and change rapidly and that can lead to cancer. About fifty out of a hundred women with the BRCA 2 gene mutation will get breast cancer by the time they’re seventy.”

“So that means?” I could see the anxiety building inside him as he fidgeted with the sleeve of his shirt on his bicep.

“I get a preventative mastectomy and reconstruction.”

His chest expanded with a heavy breath and then the words “That seems a bit drastic for something you don’t know you’re going to get,” followed.

Rager stared at me for the longest time before Lane knocked on the door. “Rager, I need ya, man.”

Rager nodded and blinked slowly at me. He didn’t say anything before he walked away and out the door. Mom came by as I was finishing putting away the groceries, Pace and Hudson with her, and then Knox following close behind but having a meltdown that his shirt was on backward.

Mom hugged me immediately. “I’ve told him four times it’s not on backward, but I’m beginning to question it myself.”

I stared down at him. It wasn’t on backward and as soon as he noticed me, he forgot all about his shirt and ran full speed into my arms, along with Pace and Hudson.

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