Wreckless by Bria Quinlan

Author:Bria Quinlan [Quinlan, Bria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

“Are you nervous?” Jake asked as we pulled up to a house not far from his high school.

I wanted to say, Are you here? Because every time I let my guard down with him, I was breaking a law or taking my clothes off. So yeah. If he was within a twenty-mile radius, I was probably nervous.

Instead of owning up to that, I settled for nodding.

“It's just a party. We'll make a little time, then we'll take off.” He parked behind a beat-up Ford Focus and shut the truck down. “Who knows, you might even have some fun.”

He opened the door and hopped down, putting his hand out for me to slide across the bench.

I took a deep breath then slid over, letting him ease me to the ground next to him before reaching back for my sweater.

As I pulled it on, Jake rolled his eyes toward the heavens like there might be some help coming.

“Is that a cardigan? Hell no, Bridget.”

I tugged the sweater around me tighter. Not because I was cold, but because I knew he was going to tried to take it away from me.

“Unless you're off to Mr. Roger's Neighborhood, you are taking that thing off right now.”

“It might be cold in there.”

“There has never been a house packed with partying teenagers that was less than ninety degrees.” He glared at the sweater. “And I am getting entirely too tired of forcing clothes off your body without there being any type of actual visual payoff. Darlin’, you will take that thing off before we go in or I will take it off you myself.”

We glared at one another for a long moment, the soundtrack to our silent argument blaring from the house just up the lane. When he crossed his arms, I knew we weren’t going anywhere until I’d lost a layer—again.

I slid the sweater down my arms, dropped it back on the bench, and let him push the door shut.

“You're not going to know anyone here. It's not like you’ll go to school Monday and everyone's going to be like, Did you see how hot Bridget looked Saturday? You can be whoever you want. No one here is going to see you again. So just chill.”

I'd like to say I took that all in and became a strong, independent woman who walked in that party like I owned it.

But the truth is, I pretty much blacked everything else out when Jake implied that I looked hot.

Instead, I stared at him like my brain had fallen out during my haircut. He shook his head, took my hand, and pulled me toward the noise spilling out of the house.

We went around to a back porch people were hanging out on. Guys shouted at Jake as we went by. A couple of them offered him a smile and looked at me like what the heck is she doing clutching your hand, dude as we passed.

Inside, the classic rock was so loud it swept over me, blocking out everything else for a moment.

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