Chequered Flag

What happens when the man you're falling for is the reason your husband never came home?

ACHIENG
I buried my husband two years ago. I wore black. I stopped eating. I stopped sleeping. I stopped being anyone except the widow of Elias Wanjiku, the first Kenyan driver in Formula 1 history.
Then Sergi Salvat showed up at my door. Soaking wet. Wearing my dead husband's leather jacket. Holding a photograph I'd never seen.
He was Elias's protégé. His teammate. The driver in the car behind him on the day it rained at Spa and my whole world ended.
I should have closed the door.
I didn't.
I let him into my kitchen. Into my city. Into my bed. I told myself it was grief looking for a place to land. I told myself I could handle it.
I was wrong. Because Sergi Salvat has been carrying a secret since the crash. A number. A gap. A truth that changes everything I thought I knew about the day my husband died.
And now I have to decide - can I love a man who's been lying to me since the moment he knocked on my door?


SERGI
I was 0.7 seconds behind Elias when he hit the wall. The rules say 1.5. I was at 0.7. I broke the gap. I broke the rule. And my friend paid for it.
I've spent two years drowning in that number. Racing with shaking hands. Sleeping in a dead man's jacket because taking it off feels like forgetting him.
Then I went to London. To give his widow a photograph. To ask one question. To leave.
I didn't leave.
Because Achieng Otieno looked at me like I was a person, not a ghost. She made me chapati from her dead husband's recipe and sat across the table and talked to me like I deserved to be talked to. And somewhere between London and Barcelona and Nairobi, I fell in love with the one woman on earth I have no right to want.
She doesn't know about the 0.7 seconds. She doesn't know what I did. She doesn't know that every time she touches the scar on my ribs, she's touching the proof that I should have kept my distance.
The truth is going to come out. It always does.
And when it does, I'll lose her. The only question is whether I'll survive it twice.

He broke the rules on the track. She's about to break every rule she set for herself off it.
Chequered Flag is a Book in the VELOCITY series - a standalone BWWM Formula 1 romance featuring a second chance at love, a forbidden connection, and a secret that could destroy them both. Each book features a different couple. No cliffhangers. Guaranteed HEA.