The Mechanic's Gift

A wrench thrown in anger reveals a hidden truth: Dez, a mechanic fighting to escape his father's shadow, discovers he can feel the flaws in metal with a touch. When a critical race car transmission fails, threatening his last chance at a career, Dez faces an impossible choice. The senior mechanics found nothing, but his bare hands reveal a catastrophic, invisible fracture that could destroy Car 4 and its driver during qualifying. With his job on the line and a rival eager to see him fail, Dez must prove his impossible gift, or watch everything he's worked for crumble. But how can he explain a power that defies all logic in a world built on hard evidence?

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