I Dare You to Break Curfew by Eva Muñoz

Author:Eva Muñoz [Muñoz, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: young adult
ISBN: 978-1-64405-002-6
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2019-08-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Fourteen: Connection

FROM THE balcony to my room, Troyan didn’t check to see if I was following him. He didn’t so much as glance back. Irritation squirmed inside my chest, but by some miracle, I managed to keep myself from throwing him against the wall like I had the last time he ignored me.

I’d panicked. Big deal. I wasn’t good when things got real.

Back in my hospital room, I suffered through Gaige’s fiery lecture. He yelled about how my body wasn’t well enough to be outside and that I should have waited until morning. Blah. Blah, blah. Blah, blah.

He sounded like a clucking chicken scolding an unruly chick. I sat on the bed, staring at the crisp sheets, and pretended to listen. I watched Troyan from my periphery. He leaned against the wall, arms crossed, watching his brother with disinterest. I expected him to leave, but when Gaige told him to leave my room, he said he would sit outside my door.

Finally alone I studied the ceiling and tried not to think of Troyan. But my thoughts kept coming back to the balcony. I let him kiss me. Me. I let him touch me, let him do what he wanted. I wanted to blame the formula and the connection my bite had created, but if I had to be honest, I only had myself to blame. I lost control. I let my urges takeover. Whatever happened to behaving myself?

I closed my eyes and attempted to sleep, but the knowledge of Troyan sitting yards away wouldn’t let me. I pushed aside my blanket, got out of bed, and strode to the door. As I reached for the knob, I hesitated. I whirled around and leaned my back against the cold fiberglass.

“Camron?” Troyan called from outside.

I slid down to the floor and hugged my knees to my chest.

“Camron, are you all right?”

I sighed. “How can you ask me that after the way I treated you?”

A long pause stretched between us before Troyan said, “I will not force you into anything. You have not grown up as Inshari, so you have no understanding of the feelings that come with the kind of connection we have with each other.”

“You stayed anyway.” I shoved my fingers into my hair. “You don’t have to. You can leave, you know.”

“None of this is your fault.”

“But it is.” I thumped the back of my head on the door. “I’m the one who said I wanted to behave, and yet I couldn’t.”

“Believe me, it is not all your fault. I pushed you into giving in. Unlike you, I understand the urges that course through my body. I apologize. I should have known better.”

Seeing no other way out of my decision, I said, “There’s something I want to tell you.”

“Hmm?”

“First,” I took a breath, “you have to promise not to interrupt until I’m done or else I might not be able to finish.”

Another long silence.

“Do you promise?” I whispered.

“I promise,” he said, soft and gentle.

I closed my eyes and gathered my thoughts.

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