The Backup Plan by Jen McLaughlin

Author:Jen McLaughlin [McLaughlin, Jen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Entangled, Coming of Age, Embrace, New Adult, enemies to lovers, overcoming odds, Contemporary, Forbidden Love, redemption, new adult romance, Across The Tracks, NA romance, NA
Goodreads: 38492056
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Embrace)
Published: 2018-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

Taylor

Chase Maxwell was ridiculous.

And ridiculously hot.

Every time I spoke to him, or touched him, or he made a corny joke, I fell for him a little bit more. If I wasn’t careful, by the time we were finished, there would be nothing left of me when he walked away. And he would, inevitably, walk away.

There was no doubt in my mind about that.

For now, I was going to enjoy having him at my side and do my best to not worry about what came next. I was going to live in the moment, with the boy I’d had a crush on for my whole frigging life at my side, and that was that. I paced in front of my dorm, watching for Chase’s car. He’d said forty-five minutes, and it was pushing an hour.

Maybe he was walking away already. Maybe he got good news at the doctor and was ready to move on. Shaking my head at myself, I sensed someone coming up behind me. Hoping it was Chase, I spun, but it wasn’t. It was a girl I vaguely recognized from my Economics class.

She walked right up to me, clearly intending to talk, so I forced a smile. “Hi.”

“Hey.” She smiled back. “You’re Taylor, right?”

“Yeah.” I tucked my hair behind my ear, glancing over my shoulder. Still no sign of Chase. “You’re in Economics, right?”

She nodded. “Yes. With Chase.”

“Yeah.”

She bit her lip. “I know you don’t know me, but…”

“Yeah?” I asked after she faded off.

“I was wondering if you’d like to be friends,” she blurted out.

I blinked at her.

“That sounded weird.” She laughed nervously, flicking her brown hair over her shoulder. “It’s just, you seem nice, and you’re one of the only people who seems to be able to give Chase a second chance, and I like that about you.”

I swallowed. “Uh, thanks?”

“I mean it. Chase was—is—a nice guy. Everyone deciding to hate him was kind of ridiculous. I mean, we don’t know what happened that night. Only he does.”

Nodding, I looked for him again. “Do you know him? Are you friends with him?”

“I was, once,” she admitted, her cheeks flushing. “We were more than friends, actually. I cheer for the team, and we were a couple, back when it happened.”

“Oh. Oh.” Everything about her screamed of Chase’s type. Her slim frame. Her big breasts. The name brand clothing she wore. Her long hair. Her perfect face. She was drop-dead gorgeous. Totally his type. “Look, I don’t know what—”

“I know you’re with him, and I’m not trying to win him back,” she said quickly. “I lost that chance when I didn’t stand by him like I should have. That’s on me.”

Anger swelled in the pit of my stomach. “You broke up with him after the accident?”

“No, he broke it off with me.” She bit her lip again. “But I let him. I didn’t fight for us. That’s my fault, not his. He was in a dark place.”

He still was, but little by little he was coming into the light.

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