The Perfectly Imperfect Match (Suttonville Sentinels) by Kendra C. Highley

Author:Kendra C. Highley [Highley, Kendra C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Entangled, Crush, Teen, Teen romance, YA, YA romance, Romance, Kendra C. Highley, Suttonville Sentinels, opposites attract, Enemies to Lovers, Forbidden Relationship, contemporary, contemporary romance
Publisher: Entangled Publishing, LLC (Crush)
Published: 2017-07-10T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nineteen

Dylan

What am I doing? What am I doing? Dylan watched Lucy, long-legged and sure, as she strode over to pick up the catcher’s equipment he’d brought along. He’d set it out hoping it would create a buffer, a “this is all business” gesture.

It hadn’t worked. He should’ve known it wouldn’t. This would probably end up way more complicated than he liked, but there was a definite pull between them. He’d thought if you gave a pair of magnets enough distance they wouldn’t call to each other. In this case, he’d been dead wrong. Just watching her bend to pick up the catcher’s helmet made his pulse race. She moved with catlike grace. She knew what she wanted and she went for it.

That, he could respect.

The fact that he was what Lucy wanted? As much as he hated himself for ignoring Otis, and for swerving away from his rule about no girls, knowing how much Lucy wanted to be here flattered him. It was exciting.

And damn hot.

Most of the girls he’d dated before were….well, proper was an old-fashioned word, but maybe traditional was more accurate. They weren’t shy about letting him know they were interested, but they wanted him to take the lead, dropping hints until he asked them out. They wanted the full production—having him pay the check, waiting for him to kiss them, elaborate prom-posals, the whole deal. Fortunately, he was good at figuring out how to navigate the unspoken rules. Lucy threw the rulebook out, and it kept him on his toes.

He’d never kissed girls he barely knew—or burned for the chance to do it again—until now.

Lucy glanced over her shoulder at him, her smile teasing. “Are we going to meet wherever we’re going, or should I leave my car here?”

It was a challenge. The first of many, he supposed. “I’ll drive.”

Her smile widened— He’d passed the first test.

She helped him carry everything back to his car, then hopped into the passenger seat without waiting to see if he’d open the door for her. Yeah, definitely not traditional.

“Where are we going?” she asked. Her cheeks were flushed, but he didn’t think it was the heat. “I’m not dressed for anything too fancy.”

“Dolly’s?”

She nodded. “I owe you a burger, so that’s good.”

They didn’t talk much on the way to the drive-in. After all her brash behavior, Lucy seemed to have gone shy on him.

He liked that, too.

Once they parked and ordered, he decided he had to say something. “So, um, you’re a senior next year, right? Where are you going after high school?”

“Design school, with a minor in business. I like to do needlepoint, but I sew, too. My mom taught me young, and I want to turn it into a career like she has. Texas Women’s has a good program and it’s local. With my dad in the Army, I get a break on the tuition, too. You?”

He hadn’t expected her to have such a concrete plan. He blinked. “Um, baseball. I’m going to try to get into the minor league farm system.

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