I prepared for the race and warmed up at the garage as Kai stood next to me messaging my back and shoulders.

"You got this, you came over your fears. You're good" Kai said to me, but it felt like he talked to himself more than me.

I snorted and turned to him. "Stop worrying" I tell him and he sighs in defeat.

"Why didn't you want anyone here to support you, Nat?" Kai asked.

"I have to focus" I say and shrug.

"Although, I would've loved if Max was here. But I doubt he had the time anyways" I say and pull up my track suit.

I get on my helmet and jump a few times and get used to the feeling of the tracksuit on my body.

It had been a while since being in it.

I check the radio and the earbuds before getting in the car.

I take off and go to the start line. I drive by my father to the front and even though he had a helmet on, I could feel his glare.

He would do his best to squash me like a bug.

I prepared for impact when racing with him on the same track.

Before I knew it the race had begun and I pushed on. The first corner came and I drifted in the corner and stones and dust flew onto my fathers front and I whooped as I drove from him.

I did my best to overtake the other drivers. And drift perfectly around. I get onto the fifth place and press on.

"How is the car Nathalie?" Scott asks through the radio and I smile.

"Fucking amazing, Scott" I say and laugh. I get fourth place and fight to stay.

I have to be faster to win. Or at least get an acceptable result.

Last year I didn't get under the third best time.

"You're fast Nathalie, but I need you to push harder. Jos is coming for you" Scott says in a warning tone.

I could sense everyone being on edge as they awaited my fathers actions.

He tried the same trick as last year and tried to block my front wheel, but I turned into a drift and lost him as I maneuvered him.

I succeeded and the crew cheered in the radio.

"You got him!" Scott shouts.

"Your third best time" Scott announces.

Before I know what's happening, I get the second best time as the race ends.

I got no crashes. No close crashes. Nothing.

I park the car by the garage and jump out, the crew lifts me up and cheer on me and I laugh and cheer as well.

I take off my helmet and shake my hair out of the braid.

They put me down and we hug all of us. I hug Kai, but when I do, I'm turned around by a hand on my shoulder.

Jos is raging mad and shove me back into the car in anger.

"Hey, man! Cut it out" my crew shouts and I groan as the air left my lungs from the impact.

"This isn't over!" Jos shout at me before leaving.

My mood drops and I shake my head. I was prepared for this. I was.

"Congratulations!" A familiar voice shouts and I'm lifted from the ground as someone lifts me up.

Daniel?

"What the hell are you doing here?" I shout in happiness. I see everyone pile into the garage and I scream excited and Daniel put me down and I hug him tightly.

Next Max tackles me into a hug and lifts me and I feel myself tearing up.

"You fucking did it" Max says in my ear. "Proficiat, sister" Max says and I smile into his neck.

"Thank you" I cry. Max puts me down and wipe my tears away and I smile.

I'm tackling into a hug by Charles and I hug him back. "This calls for celebration!" Charles shouts using my own words.

I hug George, Lando and Lewis as well. Pierre would come later I was told.

I enjoyed Lando's tight hug more than I thought I would. I actually missed his presence.

I bring the guys back to the hotel and they of course, had found out where I stayed and booked rooms for them too.

We went to our separate rooms to freshen up and then go to dinner.

So, I went to my room and showered and then put on some sweats, as I had an hour and a half before I had to be ready.

A knock on my door interrupted my attempt to find an outfit.

I opened the door and my smile fell when I saw who it was. "Jos?" I say confused.

"That's father to you" Jos said and walked past me.

I raised an eyebrow and let the door stay open. "What are you doing here?" I ask and stay by the door.

"That number you pulled today, you're playing a dangerous game, daughter" Jos said and marched over to me and slammed the door close.

I didn't even flinch as the sound echoed from beside me. I stared at him and waited to see what he wanted.

"I need you to leave" I say and he gets closer to me.

"Jos, leave! What you tried today could've ended badly, but that's what you wanted right? Me out of the way like last year? Same trick" I spit in disgust.

"There's only room for one Verstappen in rally" Jos said and tried to intimidate me.

"Well, there's the door" I said mockingly and that triggered his anger for real.

Before I knew it, he use his flat hand, to force my head to the ground, where it smashed into the floor with a loud thud.

I groaned as pain shot up in my cheekbone. "Stop! Get off of me!" I shout and try to wiggle out of his grip as he still forces my head to the ground.

"I don't care what it takes. I will win. You're my daughter. Do as I say" Jos said and shouted the last bit.

I fought to breathe hard. I hit my fist into his leg in attempt to get him to loosen his grip on my head.

"Get off!" I scream and he lifts my head without warning and hit me with his fist across my cheekbone.

I wince at the impact as he shoves my head into the floor, before getting off of me and then he bolts.

I get dizzy and try to stand up, by using the furnitures to support me, but I just stumble around.

"Fuck" I curse as everything goes black and I land in the ground firmly with a loud thud.

I don't know how long it took for me to wake up, but the shouting and pulling, helps me come back into reality.

I open my eyes and see Max shouting at me. I slowly get my hearing back as my senses wake up.

"Nat? What happened! Answer me!" Max shouts at me and I just blink as I try to get the dark spots away.

"Kelley, close to the door and lock it" Max says to Kelley as I now see her.

She obeys and Max lifts me off the ground and place me on the couch.

"Max?" I say confused. Max sit in front of me on the floor and Kelley sit next to me.

"Who did this? What happened?" Max repeats and my face hardens.

"Jos" is all I need to say and Max knows. Max gets up abruptly and push the small table with a lamp out of the way, making it shatter.

Once again I don't wince from the violence in the room.

"I need a new room" I say and Kelley pulls me into her side.

Max cursed and shouts into the air and as he's done, he comes with a wet cloth and wipes the blood from the cut on my cheek.

My cheekbone was already bruised. It was dark blue with a mix of red.

"We're cancelling tonight" Max demanded and I shook my head no.

"I won't lose to him now, we go out and celebrate. I need to, we need the fun" I say and Max sees my point.

"Everyone is going to ask about that" Max says and point to my face.

"I tripped and hit my face on the door" I answer and Max shakes his head.

"I thought we were done with the lies for him" Max said in disbelief.

I knew he wasn't angry with me, he was angry at the fact that we just helped our father getting away with this, again.

"I hate him" Max said and I squeezed his hand. "Ditto"