Slipstream

"I've spent ten years pretending I hate you. I'm starting to forget what it was supposed to protect."Kace Ferro has built his career on control. Cold under pressure and merciless behind the wheel, the reigning Formula 1 champion has never given the world a reason to believe he needs anyone. Especially not Dimitri Voight-the reckless, charismatic rival who stole his crown and turned their feud into the most profitable spectacle in motorsport.
The cameras see insults, collisions, and a decade of bitter competition. They have never seen the locked hotel-room doors. For ten years, Kace and Dimitri have hidden a private love affair behind public hatred, meeting in stolen hours between races and separating before morning. Their arrangement has survived rival teams, championship battles, bruised pride, and every question neither man has been willing to answer.
As long as the garage walls stay between them, they can pretend secrecy is enough. Then a mid-season restructuring puts them in the same team colors. Now they share a garage, technical meetings, sponsors, strategy sessions, and a championship neither can win alone. Every practiced insult must survive closer scrutiny. Every accidental touch could become a headline. And the more effectively they work together, the harder it becomes to maintain the fiction that they are enemies everywhere that matters.
Kace is terrified that being seen will cost him the invulnerable identity he sacrificed everything to build. Dimitri has spent his life making himself charming enough to be wanted and fears that, without the performance, even Kace might decide he is too difficult to keep. With the title fight tightening and the international press watching their every move, the rivalry that made them famous begins to fracture.
Winning will demand trust. Loving each other will demand something far more dangerous. After ten years of racing side by side and loving each other in secret, can two champions finally choose the truth without losing everything they fought to become?