CHAPTER SEVEN DASH

CHAPTER SEVEN

DASH

Just my fucking luck! The girl I slept with at my party is the one and only Tabatha Knight. Mr. Knight's daughter. My new boss!

"Dude. I had no idea," Blake says as he sits next to me on my couch while he holds my laptop. "I told you that I had never met her."

"Go to images," I say pointing to her name on my screen.

He does and pictures of her start to pop up—her in the winner's circle with racers; her dad by her side; her out at parties with a dark-haired man by her side. "Is that her ex?" I ask.

"One sec," he says before he clicks on the link to his name. "Rodger Heath the third. Son of Rodger Heath the second and Shawna Heath…"

"Wait. Rodger Heath? As in the congressman?" I ask, standing up from the couch and looking down at him in shock.

"Yes," he says just as shocked. He looks back down and starts to read the headline. "The two are still going strong after a year together. Are wedding bells in their near future?" He clicks on a few other links. A picture comes up of her and him walking out of a restaurant in New York City. She's wearing a black coat that she's tied tightly around her, keeping out the cold. Her long brown hair falls down—covering her face. She has her head down, and he has a hold of her arm tightly as if he's dragging her behind him. His face is hard as he stares straight at the camera. You can tell by his hard stare and his hold on her that he is not happy about something. Whether it was her or the cameras, I don't know. Blake then looks at a few more links. Not one mentions their breakup. How long ago did they split? Could it be possible that the press doesn't know about it yet?

"What are you going to do?" he asks getting my attention. He has a hard look on his face as he stares up at me from my laptop.

"What I always do. I always get what I want," I say simply. You think I give a rat's ass that her ex is Rodger Heath? Fuck, no!

"Dash, man, you just got the offer of a lifetime. You've already signed with him. You gonna jeopardize it for her?" he asks softly. "I mean, I get it, she's hot. But you just met her. And Jackie said they just broke up. The odds of them staying broke up…"

"I want her," I state, interrupting her.

"You've already had her." He says with a smirk now on his face.

I shake my head. "I want her again." She was different. She was wild, just like I knew she would be. Valerie was so boring, and I always had to be in control. Tabatha was crazy and full of passion. I could feel it in the way she touched me. Her body screamed for a release.

"You know her dad will kick you off the team if he catches the two of you together?" He closes the laptop and looks up at me. "I mean, look who she was with." He brings up Rodger again.

I roll my eyes, but inside, I am wondering the same thing. I mean, look at their fathers. Talk about a power couple. "Probably," I say in all honesty. But Mr. Knight told me that he isn't where he is today without taking risks. And she is a risk I'm willing to take.