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“Can I see?” He sounded eager and the idea that he couldn’t wait cemented the smile already on my lips. “Facetime me. I wanna see them.”
“No. The kids are in bed with me.”
He grunted and the sound sent a rush of emotion through me. I missed him so much. “Fine. Send me a picture later.”
“Why so Willie can try to steal your phone?”
There was noise in the background again, as if the guys had returned to where he was. “He’s not talking to me after I broke his nose.”
“I can’t believe you broke his nose.”
“That’s what he gets for trying to see my wife naked,” he growled. “He keeps it up and I’m going to break his jaw.”
“Uh huh.”
He sighed and I heard another door closing followed by laughter in the distance. “I gotta get going but I just needed to hear your voice before we hit the road.”
“Me too,” I told him, smiling. “I love you.”
“I love you too.”
For the next couple weeks, that was how most of our conversations went during his time on the West Coast. Every track, every night, he called to check on us, and my pussy. After a while, weeks, I’d finally been cleared by my doctor to travel again and couldn’t wait to surprise him in Calistoga.
It was crazy to me that at the start of the season my biggest worries had been him taking over partial ownership of JAR Racing, and me having the breast cancer gene. And now, they were on us being together again.
RAGER DIDN’T TAKEwell to the idea that I wanted to keep the kids home with me for the final West Coast swing of the year. Or that I’d be celebrating my thirtieth birthday at home without him. Which sucked. I didn’t realize how much I missed him until I didn’t see him on my birthday.
Truthfully, I thought it’d be good for him to have some time with the team, my dad, and to be completely focused on racing. After a month, I was dying. I wanted my husband. The kids were miserable, hated being at home and asked constantly when we were leaving for the track.
So I made a plan to fly out to Calistoga, arranged to take my mom, Rosa, Kinsley and Caden with me, and we met up with the team.
“You didn’t say anything to him, right?”
Caden groaned, scrolling through his phone. “No, I didn’t.”
“He thinks I’m at home with the kids, right?” I looked down at Hudson asleep in my arms as we rode to the track from the Santa Rosa airport.
“I swear I didn’t tell him. He doesn’t even know we’re together.”
The entire flight I was nervous and downright jittery. I hadn’t seen Rager in over a month and I wasn’t sure how to act now that we were heading to see him. I knew once I saw him, everything would be back to normal, but I was still nervous anticipating his reaction.
Honestly, the separation had been good for our relationship. If anything, it was stronger. We talked multiple times a day, discovered FaceTiming phone sex was highly erotic and had some serious conversations about the future and what he wanted from his career.
I watched every race on DIRTVision with the kids in hopes to catch a glimpse of him or just the mention of his name. That was when I knew I had to go see him.
“I can’t wait to see Daddy!” Bristol gleamed the moment we were out of the car in the parking lot.
“Me too!” Pace said.
“I want kettle corn,” Knox noted, hanging onto Caden’s wheelchair and then on his lap. My kids were all over Caden. Probably because he had a wheelchair and they thought it was the coolest thing ever.
“I could down a beer,” Caden noted, winking at Kinsley.
“No drinking, dude,” she told him, handing him his cell phone Knox had kicked out of his hand. I was so nervous Knox was going to hurt him climbing all over him, but Caden didn’t say anything. He loved my kids as much as they loved him.
It took some time but we made it to the track right after the start of the main event but couldn’t make it into the pits because they were in the middle of the track at Calistoga. Making our way through where the merchandise trailer was parked, Hayden and Lily screamed when they saw our crew wandering through the parking lot. We probably looked a bit crazy after a seven-hour flight with five kids, but every one of us were smiling.
“You made it!” Hayden gushed.