The moonlit night was still, the late July temperature warm but comfortable as Lisa Woodrow sat on a concrete bench in her mother's North Carolina garden. Heavy perfumes from many varieties of roses tickled her nose and carried her back to her past. As she had so often in those blissfully naive and hopelessly romantic younger days, she found herself thinking of Wade McClellan".
A rustling in a far corner of the large garden brought her abruptly back to the present. Every nerve ending in her body on sudden alert, she sat up straight, straining her ears. When the sound wasn't repeated, she let out the breath she'd been holding and tried to relax, assuring herself that there was nothing to fear here.
She had plenty of reason to be on edge after the events of the past week. It didn't soothe her frazzled nerves to know that Wade was inside her parents'house, meeting with her father and a few other top members of the Woodrow Racing team.
Since team owner Ernes ...
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