Daring the Bad Boy by Monica Murphy

Author:Monica Murphy [Murphy, Monica]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult, swimming, Crush, Entangled Teen, camp, Entangled Crush, Teen Romance, Romance, Teen, summer camp, bad boy, forbidden love, Entangled, matchmaker, swim, YA, summer
ISBN: 9781633757219
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-08-20T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

JAKE

I went in search of Annie, frustration filling me when I couldn’t find her anywhere. I needed to start my lifeguard tower shift in less than fifteen minutes and I had no freaking clue where she was.

Luckily enough, I ran into some of the girls who were in her cabin out by the volleyball court.

“Hey!” I shouted at them, crooking my finger when they all turned to look at me, their brows lowered in puzzlement. “Come here.”

They bounded over to where I stood, all four of them like they were a pack or a herd or something. I had no idea what their names were, not that it really mattered. “What’s going on?” one of them asked.

I could see the curiosity blazing in their eyes. I was opening myself up to all sorts of questions—and rumors—by talking to them. But I had no choice. “I’m hoping maybe one of you, uh, knows where Annie is?”

They all turned to each other, matching smirks on their faces before another one of them said, “She’s in the arts and crafts building.”

Relief flooding me, I took off, yelling a thanks over my shoulder as I did so. I could hear them laughing behind me, but I didn’t care. I needed to talk to Annie, and it couldn’t wait much longer.

I’d sort of avoided her the past two days, which wasn’t cool. But that last night together in the pool, the more we talked, the madder I got. Worse, I’d felt jealous over her constant questions about Kyle. I knew she liked him. Hell, I lured her into the pool with promises of information on Kyle. And then when I had to give up the goods, see that dreamy look glaze her eyes every time she said his name, I don’t know. It made me…angry.

Jealous, too. And I never felt jealous. It was hard for me to admit even to myself that I was jealous of Kyle. The guy was a selfish idiot. He didn’t care about anyone else, especially Annie. He didn’t even remember her name.

That tool wasn’t worth the ground she freaking walked on.

Not that I could tell her, or do anything about it. Not that I could say to her that I liked her. I couldn’t like her. She was off-limits.

Forbidden.

At one point late last night when I couldn’t sleep, I wondered if that made her even more attractive, the forbidden part. And how totally messed up that was. Could it be true? Was I proving the point that we want what we can’t have?

I wasn’t sure.

Despite my wariness, and my avoiding her, I missed her. A lot. I wanted to continue giving her those stupid swimming lessons. I wanted to make her smile and encourage her to keep going and see the flush of pleasure sweep across her cheeks when I told her she did a good job. Seeing her so happy did something to my chest that made it feel tight, like I could hardly breathe.

Truth? My reaction to her made me uncomfortable.

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