Hot Finish (Fast Track #3)(61)
Author: Erin McCarthy

by Tuesday Talladega

They may have quit the race early the first time around, but Ryder Jefferson and his ex-wife (well, not really ex-wife, we’ll get back to that in a sec) have hit the track together for a second time, tying the knot in Charlotte on Valentine’s Day (cue the “awww”) for two hundred guests. Sponsor- and media-free, details are sketchy, but sources say the bride wore an empire-waist gown, leading to rumors there’s a baby driver on board. The bride’s attendants were Tamara Briggs-Monroe, Imogen Wilson, and curiously enough, Nikki Strickland, a newlywed herself, whose Dolce and Gabbana-covered butt has been at every race this season since Daytona. Groomsmen were the Monroe brothers, Ty McCordle, and Jonas Strickland, leaving Evan Monroe without a partner. (Note to Evan: If you need a woman, call me, sweetums.)

While the wedding was a standard chic black tie affair with a string quartet and a litany of expensive beef dishes given French names, the groom’s cake raised a few eyebrows by being a dozen pies instead of an actual cake. Don’t you hate it when there’s an inside joke you don’t get?

But I can tell you this . . . turns out the Jeffersons never legally got divorced and were all set to finalize things just this past December twenty-third. Yet instead here they are throwing a wedding, so I guess somebody was naughty and nice this year. It’s enough to make even a hard-core cynic like me give love two thumbs up.

Well, I wish them all the best, blah, blah, blah, and won’t hold it against them that my invitation got lost in the mail.

Drop by tomorrow for the latest rumor on Evan Monroe, the partner-free cutie driver, who is facing rough waters with his team owner. On your feet, race fans, the season just got a whole lot more exciting . . .