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coloured race team shirts. She was
taken through to a long line of garages, where the logos of each team were displayed
outside. She supposed this must be the pit lane – she recognised it from a
picture in one of her books. So this was where the cars came in to have their
tyres changed, or bits repaired if they had fallen off.
    ‘How do you know where to park?’ she asked Erik and he
laughed.
    ‘The garages are usually in the same order,’ Erik explained.
‘So you get used to where they are. I did drive into the wrong team’s garage
last year as I had been with my previous team for a few years and had got used
to where they were. I got some ribbing for that.’
     ‘I would have liked to have seen that,’ Anna said,
laughing.
    Gary took Anna inside the garage, but forbid her from
wandering around or touching anything. Anna moaned that it was like being on a
school trip, which made Erik snigger.
    ‘I’d be too scared to touch anything anyway,’ Anna said to
Erik. ‘Imagine I broke something off your car and you couldn’t race’
    Erik shook his head, laughing.
    ‘Most stuff that can be easily broken off can also be easily
fixed,’ he said.
    ‘I   am tempted to break something off Devlin’s car,
though,’ Anna said, darkly. Devlin been particularly obnoxious on the few
occasions she had seen him the last couple of days, making sexual innuendos and
referring often to her bear pyjamas.
    ‘Oh, speak of the devil,’ she said, as Devlin came
sauntering over.
    ‘Well, Erik,’ he said, clapping a hand on his shoulder. It
didn’t seem like a particularly friendly gesture to me – and Anna could tell
from Erik’s body language that he hadn’t seen it as such either. ‘Here we are
again.’
    Erik nodded, and said, ‘May the best man win, I suppose.’
    Devlin laughed, not entirely pleasantly, Anna thought.
    ‘That’ll be me then,’ he said, and then swaggered off again,
winking at Anna as he went.
    ‘He is such an idiot,’ she ranted as she watched him go. ‘I
hope his wheels fall off.’
    This had made Erik laugh again and that gave her a little
jolt of pleasure. She liked making him laugh – liked hearing the sound and
seeing his face light up. She thought he seemed a bit serious sometimes, and
needed a bit more laughter in his life.
    Erik had left her then to go and get changed into his race
gear, and she had wandered around for a while. Gary came over and told her in
no uncertain terms to go to the seating area in the corner and sit down before
she caused an accident, so she did, sticking her tongue out at him behind his
back as he walked away.
    She saw Devlin emerge first, clad in his racing gear. She had
to admit, the whole ensemble was pretty hot. With the helmet on, she could
pretend it wasn’t Devlin in there too, just an unidentified, sexy man. Then she
sucked a breath in as Erik stepped out. If Devlin was hot, Erik was scorching.
She watched, aware her mouth was probably hanging open slightly. He carried his
helmet under his arm, so she could see his face. His gorgeous face, she
thought, drinking him in. She stared as he took a swig from a water bottle, and
then emptied the remainder of it over his head. The water dripped down his
perfectly chiselled face. Anna felt hot herself, and closed her mouth. It
wouldn’t do to be caught gawping, she thought. She watched as Erik pulled on
his helmet and then climbed into the car. Devlin had already got in his car,
and the two of them waited, their engines loud. She was glad for the earplugs
Gary had pressed into her hand earlier.
    Anna wondered what they were waiting for, and then she
noticed one of the mechanics waving at them. Devlin instantly pushed his car
forward – typical of him, she thought – and Erik had to wait, following behind.
Then they were away, the noise was almost deafening, even with the earplugs in,
and she clapped a hand to her mouth at the speed they took off at once they
reached the end of the pit lane.
    She suddenly felt