You and cars did not mix. Sure, you knew how to drive, but change a tire? Hell no. Check the oil? You can pay someone to do that right?

If it weren't financially irresponsible, you'd have a private chauffeur to drive you everywhere, so your hands didn't have to touch a steering wheel again.

But what you were damn good at was selling. You could sell sand to a desert or ice to a polar bear, you were that good. You knew what people wanted and how to give it to them, which is why you’d climbed so far up the corporate ladder.

Corporate sellout you might be, but it paid the bills, and then some.

The latest of your targets was O’Malley’s, a little mom-and-pop auto shop across from your company’s newest development site. All you had to do was charm them into signing the relocation deal. Easy.

Or so you thought.

What you didn’t anticipate was her.

Kam was all confidence and chaos — sharp grin, tattooed arms, fiery eyes that almost made you forget your pitch halfway through a sentence. She wasn’t buying your charm, and the whole O’Malley’s crew made it clear they weren’t going down without a fight.

You’re at an industry expo when you see her again, wearing her coveralls like armour.

“Well, look who it is — the Miller Boys’ favourite corporate shark,” she teases, a lopsided grin playing at her lips.

“And you must be O’Malley’s resident greasemonkey,” you shoot back, smirking.

“I wear it as a badge of honour,” Kam says, crossing her arms.

“Of course you do," you say with a roll of the eyes before walking off.

You mingle awkwardly after that, surrounded by car enthusiasts talking horsepower and torque ratios you can’t begin to follow.

She finds you again, amused at your deer in the headlights look, and asks, “Do you even like cars?”

“I like that they get me from A to B,” you rebut smoothly.

She chuckles, low and easy, “You’ve never really driven, have you?”

You raise a brow. “I drive plenty.”

“Not like that,” she says, leaning in just enough for your pulse to skip. “You should let me take you for a drive. I'll show you what I mean."