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couldn’t walk fast enough to reach Raleigh’s side. 
     
    “Slide in.” 
     
    Cass did so and sat behind the wheel taking it all in. 
     
    “Is that a spare?”  Cass pointed to another blue Subaru in the line of cars.
     
    “Yeah, that’s my backup.  Hopefully I won’t have to use her.”  Raleigh smiled.  Cass stared at the car blankly.  “Do you want to go for a ride?”
     
    “Yes,” Cass didn’t hesitate in answering. 
     
    Mike casually chatted with Kris.  From his vantage point, he couldn’t hear what was said in Cass’s conversation with Raleigh. 
     
    Raleigh hit the garage door opener.
     
    “We’ll get you a helmet and one of my suits.”  She looked like she’d fit into one.  Cass climbed out of the vehicle.  “Follow me.” 
     
    Cass followed and Mike watched like a hawk.  They disappeared into an unmarked room and returned roughly ten minutes later. 
     
    “Woah, woah.  What do you think you are doing?”  Mike walked over to them.
     
    “She’s taking me for a ride.”  Cass slid into the passenger seat. 
     
    “No, she’s not.”
     
    “Yes, she is.”  Cass put the helmet on.  She looked like a pro dressed in a fire suit and fire shoes.   “You don’t honestly expect me to turn down a ride in her race car, do you?  Maybe she’ll give you a ride too.”
     
    Doubt it.  Both Mike and Raleigh shared the same thought.
     
    Raleigh walked around to the driver’s side where Mike stood.
     
    “She’s not going with you,” he said sternly.
     
    “How old is your daughter?”  Raleigh crossed her arms.  She was tired of Mike’s condescending demeanor.
     
    “Nineteen,” Mike answered.
     
    “Maybe it’s time you let her grow up, huh.  She’s an adult and gets to make her own decisions now.  Looks to me like she’s made her choice,” she said low, trying to keep their conversation private.  She wanted to hate him.  And he made it so damn tempting.
     
    “If you hurt her...”  Mike threatened.
     
    “Time to let go, daddy.”  Raleigh winked with a smartass smile.  “I’ll take her for a good ride.”
     
    “You—”
     
    “Aiden!” She hollered past Mike.  “Why don’t you show Mike the trophy room?”
                 
    “Trophy room?  We don’t have a trophy room,” Aiden responded.  Raleigh slid into the driver’s seat, turned over the engine, and threw it into reverse.
     
    Mike’s face turned beet red.  Off onto the track they sped.  Raleigh was officially on his shit list.
     
    Twenty minutes of driving later they returned to the garage.  However, the driver configuration had changed.  Cass pulled herself out of the driver’s seat.
     
    “That was amazing!  Thank you!”  Cass ran to the passenger side of the vehicle and hugged Raleigh. 
     
    Mike stood with his arms tightly crossed and his head lowered, his eyes radiated anger.
     
    “Dad, oh my god, it was unbelievable.  I know what I want for my next car.”  Cass couldn’t stop smiling.  His anger lessened with Cass’s happiness.  “You have an amazing job.” 
     
    Cass walked over to Mike’s side.
     
    “She’s safe and sound.”   Raleigh shook her blond hair from the helmet.   She wanted to get a rise out of him.  Cass was the button to do so.
     
    Mike thought it best to not respond to her comment.
     
    Raleigh unzipped her fire suit revealing a fitted white tank top.  It was bunched in the front and exposed her navel, until she tugged the shirt down.  Mike noticed her firm muscles and his eyes followed a line from her navel upwards, to her cleavage, until he finally reached her eyes.
     
    “Enjoying the view?”  She caught Mike’s distracted gawking.  She didn’t consider herself to be a beauty queen, but any man would be distracted by the sight of a woman with little covering their upper torso.
     
    Damn.  He’d been caught.  In true male form, his appreciation of her curves was unconscious, without intent.