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Jonah drummed his fingers on the steering wheel of his truck as he hit the outskirts of Johnson City. He didn’t want to be here. Didn’t want to be away from Rachel, not when he had no idea how much longer he had with her. It had been on the tip of his tongue to ask a hundred times over the past couple of weeks, but he hadn’t been able to bring himself to say the words. Because that would bring up a discussion of what legitimately came next, and he was afraid she’d want more than they’d originally agreed to. And that was on him, because he’d changed the rules and pushed them beyond the basic friends-with-benefits she’d asked for. He’d wanted as much as he could have with her, even if it was only for the short term. But Brax and Mia got back tomorrow, and that meant their short term was
