Async await in node- 2 simultaneous awaits not getting executed

Question

The code below only executes the first await can someone tell me what the problem is

const { readFile } = require("fs");

const getText = (path) => {
  return new Promise((reject, resolve) => {
    readFile(path, "utf8", (err, data) => {
      if (err) reject(err);
      else resolve(data);
    });
  });
};

async await function

const start = async () => {
  try {
    const fir = await getText("./path/first.txt");
    const sec = await getText("./path/second.txt"); //not working !!!!!!!
    console.log(fir,sec);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
};

start();

output:

hello this is the first text file

The contents of second.txt are not displayed. On the contrary if I comment out the following line

const fir = await getText("./path/first.txt");

Then the contents of second.txt are displayed.

PS: The file paths are correct and the files are not empty

Answer 1

Note the parameter order;

return new Promise((reject, resolve) => {

...should be...

return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {

As it is now,

      else resolve(data);

...will due to the confused naming actually reject with the result and ending up logging just the error.