PROLOGUE
ROCCO AND NICO
@RacingRocco
Formula 3 is not the same as Formula 1, @NicoRaces. The day you show you can handle the kind of power a Formula 1 engine delivers is the day you can critique my racing.
@NicoRaces
Driving an F3 car is hardly like riding a bicycle. But then you already know that, don’t you? I can handle any power you can, @RacingRocco. Come out of the Dark Ages and into the sunlight of the 21st century, you male chauvinist amoeba. I wouldn’t dare refer to you as a pig. It’s an insult to swine.
@RacingRocco
Saying you lack the power is not a sexist comment @NicoRaces. It’s a fact. F3 cars are smaller and less powerful. The speed at which you can grip a corner isn’t even close. If you want to corner me, you’ll have to do better.
@NicoRaces
Based on your performance of late @RacingRocco, it wouldn’t be difficult to corner you. Although why any woman would want to is beyond me.
@RacingRocco
What’s beyond you @NicoRaces is what to do with me if you ever did corner me, which would only happen if I let it happen. Maybe if you spent more time on the track and less time obsessing over me on social media, you’d move up to F2.
@NicoRaces
Maybe if you spent more time on the track @RacingRocco and less time reading my posts and making sexist comments, you’d finally find your way back to the podium.
@RacingRocco
It’s convenient to cry sexism, isn’t it @NicoRaces? Y O Y ask Y? It’s not for lack of a chromosome you’re not racing Formula 1.
@NicoRaces
I should hope not @RacingRocco. The Y chromosome isn’t good for much. Climate change. War. Not to mention the Reliant Robin.
@RacingRocco
That’s a lot to place on one little chromosome @NicoRaces. Such bitterness can mean only one thing—you’re in the wrong sport. Maybe it’s time to consider another.
@NicoRaces
I smell projection @RacingRocco. Hemingway said, “There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.” Here’s some advice. Give up this game you’re playing with me on social media and find some better use of your time. I would say it would be better spent on motor racing if you had any success at it. That leaves bullfighting and mountaineering. But I wouldn’t suggest the former. I fear the two amigos, Itchy and Scratchy, alongside the little toy soldier wouldn’t fare too well. Ouch!
DM: Direct Message: From @RacingRocco To @NicoRaces
These posts of yours are ripe with frustration. I’ll lend you my Kawasaki Ninja H2R. It might help. It’s clear you need to put something exciting between your legs.
CHAPTER ONE
ROCCO
Bullfighting, auto racing, and mountain climbing are the only real sports …’” Rocco said and then paused, distracted by that heart-shaped ass and feeling a little disappointed she wasn’t wearing a dress.
The cue stick slid back and forth between her fingers as she lined up the shot. Then in one fast motion the stick shot back, and Rocco watched the ball drop into the side pocket, leaving only one stripe and the eight ball remaining on the green felt.
She turned around and faced him. “‘All the rest are merely games,’” she said, finishing the quote before sauntering to the other end of the table.
Rocco’s cousin Dario nudged him. “What’s with that quote? Didn’t—”
