Page 20 of Wicked Surrender

And that was all fromonehour of trying and failing to tutor him on Tuesday.

Laura:He wasted the whole tutoring session. We didn’t even get to any study material, so he’s completely unwilling to try. Yet he would roll his eyes and get mad every time that I subtly hinted at him about just quitting and sparing both of us the headache of meeting up.

I felt guilty to gossip like this, but that was a ridiculous notion. Jason came to that tutoring session reeking of booze with no intention to try to study. His mean attitude was uncalled for, so no, I wasn’t out of line to vent to my best friend. She wouldn’t talk about it with anyone else.

Kristin:But at least he’s hot. That’s got to help a little bit.

“Oh, come on,” I muttered, shooting my gaze to the ceiling. “Like that matters,” I whispered.

Kristin:Don’t try to deny it.

I wasn’t. I wouldn’t. I would also not comment about how attractive Jason Reeves was, not at all.

If the rugged, reckless bad boy thing was my type, then yeah, he fit the bill. With longish, thick brown hair, those dark caramel eyes, and the lean cut to his masculine face, hewasnice to look at. But he was a different breed of a bad boy. He didn’t look like a slob and he wasn’t marked with tattoos or signs of drug abuse. Jason dressed well, as if subliminally reminding the world that he came from money and would flaunt it whenever he wanted to.

It was something more than that, though. Some power of charisma just oozed from him. A strange pull that tricked me into wanting to watch him again and again.

Kristin:There is no way you can’t admit he’s HOT. Hot AF.

She added a GIF of fanning herself like a girl in heat.

Laura:I can admit that I am aware of him.

That wasn’t agreeing or arguing with her. It was the truth. I was aware of him—intrigued about his appeal and annoyed with his attitude.

Kristin:He doesn’t have such a high record of sleeping with so many naïve freshmen for nothing.

I huffed a dry laugh.Like I needed a reminder of how much of a player he is, sleeping his way through college.

Laura:Good thing I’m not a naïve freshman then, huh?

Kristin:LOL. But you ARE naïve.

Kristin:I love you like a sister, but you are definitely a naïve good girl when it comes to the sort of girls a guy like Jason wants to ruin.

Laura:Thanks.

I tacked on a smirk emoji.

It didn’t make a difference to me. I wanted to focus on me, on my future. I could put energy into having a love life later when I was older.

Kristin:I say that as in I’m low-key worried about your being so naïve around all his sexy hotness.

I laughed out loud again, once.

Laura:Okay, enough about his being ridiculously hot.

Kristin:AHA! You admit it!!

I furrowed my brow.

Laura:It doesn’t change how much of an ass he is.

Laura:The high degree of his asshole-ness rules out his hotness factor.

Kristin:Only you would talk about how sexy a guy is like it’s a scientific equation.

Laura:I’m not single. I shouldn’t even be talking about how hot other guys are when I have yet to break up with Ethan.

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