Driven by Passion

Driven By Passion
 Table of Contents
 Title Page
 Driven By Passion (Gamble Racing, #2)
 About the author
 Foreword
 Chapter 1
 Chapter 2
 Chapter 3
 Chapter 4
 Chapter 5
 Chapter 6
 Chapter 7
 Chapter 8
 Chapter 9
 Chapter 10
 Chapter 11
 Chapter 12
 Chapter 13
 Chapter 14
 Chapter 15
 Chapter 16
 Chapter 17
 Chapter 18
 Chapter 19
 Chapter 20
 Chapter 21
 Chapter 22
 Chapter 23
 Chapter 24
 Chapter 25
 Chapter 26
 Chapter 27
 Chapter 28
 Epilogue
 Acknowledgements
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 Driven By Passion
 Renée Dahlia
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 Engine fires, sabotage, and two friends falling in love....
 Engineer Victor Tsui needs to figure out why his race cars keep failing. Being Gamble Racing’s Chief Engineer is his dream job and he’s built a fast car. But there is something wrong with his design and he needs to understand how to fix it before next season. 
 Hot headed driver Lucien Grenville has nowhere to go over the winter break, so when his friend Victor expresses frustration at the recent run of engine failures, he decides to hang out and offer support. 
 Things get awkward when Lucien gets an intense urge to kiss Victor, and they need to decide if this is going to remain a friendship or become something more. 
 About the author
 
 An avid reader, Renée Dahlia writes contemporary and historical queer romance. Renée is a bisexual cis woman who is fascinated by people and loves to explore human relationships, with a side of humour, through her writing. Renée has a degree in physics and mathematics, using this to write data-based magazine articles for the horse racing industry. Her love of horses often shines through in her fiction, and she loves a good intrigue and to escape the real world in the pages of a book. When she isn’t reading or writing, Renée spends her time with her four children, usually watching them play cricket.
 Foreword
 
 Welcome to DRIVEN BY PASSION, the second book in the Gamble Racing series. 
 If you love gay sports romance with a friends to lovers theme, family, workplace tension, and a little mystery thrown in, Driven by Passion is the book for you. This series contains a few mystery plots that continue between each book; however, I have tried to make each book a standalone read. 
 Please note this book contains toxic parenting, suicide ideation, car crashes, and assault. 
 This book is written in Australian English and some spelling and phrases may be unfamiliar to American readers. 
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 I hope you enjoy reading this book!
 Renée 
 Chapter 1
 
 
 Gamble Racing’s Series E driver Lucien Grenville had never seen his friend so frustrated. For the past few hours, Victor Tsui had paced back and forth across the engineering workshop floor, muttering, and occasionally stopping to stare at the two deconstructed S1 cars carefully arranged on the floor. Lucien wasn’t sure how their friendship worked, unless it was a case of opposites attract. Victor was a data focused mechanical engineer—diligent and careful—while Lucien was a risk taker, a hot-headed driver, or at least he had been back when they’d met. Now he drove with more control, thanks to the efforts of the Gamble Racing sports psychologist, and he was getting results, finishing third on the Series E driver’s championship this season. Two seasons in Series One—the pinnacle of motorsport—at the back of the grid had almost killed his love of being a racing driver, and being sent to the electric cars had helped him find the thrill of competition again. His teammate, Lord Alexander Islington, had finished in fifth. It was always satisfying to beat his teammate. 
 “Maybe you should take a break?” Lucien had known Victor for several years. Back when he’d been a Series Three driver for a different team, Victor had been the assistant engineer there, and they’d become unlikely friends. When Lucien had gained a Series One drive with Gamble Racing, moving away from Victor’s team, they’d stayed in touch, even though they’d been working for different teams. Now Victor has been promoted to Gamble Racing’s Chief S1 Engineer—responsible for the design of the team’s S1 cars—their friendship had grown in a comfortable place, as they spent time together in the workshop, or during the summer break. The Series E season was much shorter than the S1 season, so Lucien had been hanging around Victor since September because he’d been the third driver, the backup, for the second half of the S1 season. Being the backup driver meant all the work and none of the racing. 
 “It makes no sense. It’s almost like the three engine fires all started near the exhaust systems.” Victor tugged at his thick black hair and scowled at the engine pieces. 
 “Take a break. Come for a walk with me.” Lucien knew better than to say anything about the engine problems. Victor was the expert. 
 “What good will that do?” 
 Lucien shrugged. “Sometimes it helps to get away from the puzzle for a while.” He spent a lot of time walking and he found it helpful for sorting out his myriad of problems. 
 “Fuck. Okay. At this point, I’ll take any suggestion. If you want me to hang upside and cluck like a chicken, I’d do it if it would get me a clue to solving this fucking mess.” 
 “Come.” Lucien had a couple of hours before his meeting with Socrates and the rest of the SE team to discuss the upcoming season. Series E was different to S1 in that the batteries were all the same between teams, although teams were able to design their own power train and other parts. A