I’d been trying to get a hold of Robert for a whole month. All of my ID and documents were still with him, after all.
But he was too busy planning Zara’s birthday party to even bother answering me.
He only rushed back home the day before her birthday. He’d already completely forgotten what had happened a month earlier.
"It's Zara's birthday tomorrow. She loves having people around, so she invited you to the race."
I paused. A memory flickered to the front of my mind.
Zara had been a professional racer before she retired.
Inviting me there to race with them? This was obviously her way of putting me in my place and showing me who's the boss right off the bat.
"I'm not going," I refused calmly, my voice steady and unshakable.
But Robert had seen this coming a mile away. He pulled my d
