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Chapter One

July 1st

Jenny

I have butterflies in my stomach

The problem with this is that I always drive way too fast when I’ to concentrate hard on keepingwheel for dear life

I haven’t seen Alex DiAngelo for three years I was sixteen, shy, overweight and had braces and acne Not that it would have mattered, because he’s fifteen years older than er than my dad – and completely oblivious to hter

The thing is, Alex was h I only ue tied at the sheer maleness of him The day I had first set eyes on Alex was the day I had started beco womanhood, and my capacity for desire He was hot, and more than that, he oozed alpha male testosterone from every pore It’s perhaps no wonder that none of the boys at college have ever ed to hold my attention On some level they have all been co

I did try once But he got fed up with only kissing and decided I was too much of a prude It was fine bya prude wasn’t the problem…the problem was that I didn’t want him

Because he wasn’t Alex I even thought about Alex duringoverabout Alex

And now I’ain, and I’m nervous as hell Of course, he will have no idea I’hter that he doesn’t really know They met after my parents split up when he joined my Dad’s yacht club, and when I saw Dad on weekends it was just irl wants to hang out with her father’s friends? Except, of course, irl fathers’ friends are not Alex

I check as See, even thinking about hirip on the wheel and tsk atmyself to calm down Yes, I’m about to spend a week at my Dad’s beach house in Florida withto happen He would never be interested in me Okay, I look a lot different these days, thanks to a low carb diet, a skincare regihter, way too unsophisticated for hiuy to look twice at me

But a girl can dreah the next ithout Dad realizing what’s up ora total fool of myself in front of Alex I don’t know If it was anyone else I’d probably be offended this was supposed to be a break for me and my father It was only at the lasttoo Apparently he’s been having a rough tih le