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The world watched the crash happen in real time.
Two championship contenders.
One mistake.
One impact that changed everything.
While the paddock argued over who was at fault, Marion sat beside a hospital bed watching the man she had loved since childhood become someone she barely recognized beneath the wreckage of painkillers, surgeries and headlines.
Loving Lando had never been difficult before, but recovery is uglier than people think. It turns fear into resentment. Love into obligation. And every race weekend into another chance to lose him all over again.
So she leaves before he can hate her for it first.
What she doesn't expect is to find herself drawn toward the last person she should ever want near her: Pierre Gasly - the man who walked away from the same crash that nearly destroyed Lando's career.
The media calls it scandalous.
The fans calls it betrayal.
Neither of them call it love.
No matter how far Marion runs, every road seems to lead back to the boy she loved before the fame, before the rivalry, before the crash that split all three of their lives apart.
And some loves, no matter how badly damaged, never really die.
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This is a work of fiction. For the plot, not everything will resonate with how things are in real life.