Chapter 1

It started the way most things between Jade and Remy started — an argument about nothing that somehow became a drive at eleven thirty on a Friday night with nowhere specific to go and both of them too wired to sit still.

They had been doing this for two years. The friendship, the arguing, the specific chemistry of two people who pushed each other's buttons with the precision of people who had memorized exactly where all the buttons were. They worked at the same firm, lived twelve minutes apart, and had a standing Friday arrangement that was never formally agreed upon but had become as reliable as anything...