Rookie Mistake

~Raina~

I was back in my suite by three AM.

The race suit went into the bag immediately. False lining down, everything flat, nothing visible. I had done this routine so many times it took under two minutes. Then I stood in the shower for ten minutes and let the hot water do what hot water does after a race — bring the body back down from wherever it had been.

My pulse was still high.

Not from the