wrong car, right guy
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Rule one: don't get into cars with strangers.
Jade breaks that rule immediately.
Rule two: don't get involved with emotionally unavailable guys.
Kayden breaks that rule for her.
Now they're stuck in something that's not quite friends, not quite anything else, and definitely not simple.
Which would be fine... if either of them knew how to walk away.
Spoiler: they don't.
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