Chapter 18

Since then, I never saw Ian again. Just as he had promised, he vanished completely from my world. My life slowly returned to its rhythm. When there were races, I competed. When there weren't, I traveled with the new friends I had made along the way. At 26 years old, I finally restarted my life—a life that was truly and entirely mine. I had planned to finish a few more races before taking a break to travel. But then, unexpectedly, I saw a familiar face on the racetrack—Selena Lindsay. When I first saw the name, I assumed it was just someone with the same name, until I saw her at the preliminaries. That was when I realized I hadn't been mistaken. It was indeed Selena. Since I had accumulated enough points, I didn't need to compete in the preliminaries and advanced straight to the finals. But Selena's presence threw me off. There was something unsettling in the way she looked at me. Her performance in the preliminaries was even more disturbing. She never once considered hitting