Daelan's POV.
I hadn’t even realized how much time had passed. The sky was still dark, but the pulse of the night had slowed. The crowd that once spilled across the beach had started thinning, and the band had long wrapped up our final set. I had just finished helping with packing when I looked over the soft flickering lights along the shore and remembered Cassie.
She had won first place, first. I was there when they called her name as my heart skipped a beat in complete shock. She really had won, I was increasingly surprised at how good she was at these bike races.
But I didn’t get the chance to go up to her and pass my congratulations again, this time not caring whether or not she wanted to talk to me. But the band had to regroup backstage, and next pulled into all sorts of convers
