The Bad Boy Bargain by Kendra C. Highley
Publication
Date: November 14, 2016
Publisher:
Entangled Teen Crush
Baseball
player Kyle Sawyer has many labels: bad boy, delinquent, ladies’
man, fearless outfielder… Only one of them is actually true. But
then sweet ballet dancer Faith Gladwell asks him to help wreck her
reputation, and everything goes sideways.
Faith
knows a thing or two about love, and what she had with her cheating
jerk of an ex wasn’t it. When he starts spreading rumors about her
being an Ice Queen, Faith decides it’s time to let a little bad
into her life.
Lucky
for her, Kyle Sawyer—dark, dangerous, totally swoonworthy Kyle
Sawyer—is landscaping her backyard over Spring Break. Shirtless.
And if she can convince him to play along, “dating” Kyle will
silence the rumors.
But
Faith’s plan threatens to expose Sawyer’s biggest secret of
all…and that’s a risk he’s not willing to take.
Disclaimer:
This book contains drop-the-book-and-fan-yourself kisses…and
touches. Fall in love with a bad boy at your own risk.
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***EXCERPT***
Chapter One
Kyle
Badass, troublemaker, girl
magnet—familiar words always followed Kyle from his locker to his
senior English classroom. Or from the cafeteria to the parking lot.
Or from the locker room to the baseball field. Anywhere he went, the
whispers followed.
Today, it went something like, “Ooh,
I know who we should vote most likely to drop out before graduation,”
as he walked by. Or, “I heard he banged two girls at once at North
Texas last weekend. College girls, man!” Or, “Dude, I heard MLB
scouts are coming to the games to watch him play.”
He wished that last one were true.
Kyle zipped his hoodie up tighter,
acting like he couldn’t hear a word. The dark red hoodie and a pair
of headphones were pretty thin armor, even if he did encourage the
stories…the lies. Suttonville High was a big enough maze of suck
without letting the truth out.
And no way, no how, was he showing any
sort of weakness ever again.
“Dude! Wait up!” a guy called.
For a second, Kyle stiffened. Old
habits died hard. But he recognized the voice and let his shoulders
relax. Cade Adams, unlike the hundreds of rich, snobby kids crowding
the halls, was worth waiting for. He slowed his stride until Cade
caught up, looking disheveled. For an amused moment, he wondered if
Cade was running from a pack of zombified football players, then he
noticed the pleading look on Cade’s face. The same one he’d
ignored from a half dozen other guys.
He shook his head. “Nope, still not
going.”
“It’s supposed to be a great
party,” Cade said, running a hand over his hair to coerce it back
into shape. It was a little too long, and curls kept springing up on
his head. “First night of spring break, man. All the seniors are
going.”
“Everyone except me,” Kyle said,
quickening his pace.
“Come on,” Cade pleaded. “I need
to be your wingman. Just once. Your leftovers would be a feast to us
mere mortals.”
That’s what half the baseball team
said, too. But if he let someone be his wingman, they’d find out
really quick that he wasn’t what everyone assumed. “Sorry, not my
scene.”
“Fine. Okay, I get it.” Cade’s
crooked smile didn’t do much to hide his disappointment.
“Just…think about it.”
He strode off, breezing through the
hall filled with students in designer clothes as if his Iron Man
T-shirt, wild hair, and faded jeans didn’t matter to him. And it
didn’t—at some point last fall, Cade had become cool. Either
that, or he’d stopped caring what any of them thought.
Lucky bastard.
Kyle stalked to chemistry, praying he’d
pass today’s test. Being dyslexic turned the periodic table into a
medieval torture device, even if his teacher was good about giving
him tutoring on the down low. He couldn’t let anyone know he
actually cared about his grades, aside from passing to play baseball.
“I heard he’s going out with some
girl at Texas Woman’s,” a girl whispered to another as he walked
in, as if he couldn’t hear them.
“Wish I knew for sure if anyone here
has a chance,” said the other girl, a pretty senior who had a
reputation of being a man-eater. “Because I’d ride that pony all
over town.”
Kyle’s ears flamed up. To hide his
discomfort, he rolled his neck, getting a little satisfaction out of
the wary stares after the vertebrae cracked. That’s right, the
scary kid just cracked his back. You puny humans shouldn’t try that
at home.
The bell rang and he sank into his
desk, adopting his typical pose of “I’m only here because the
truant officer made me show up today” with his legs stretched out
in the aisle. Mrs. Moody, the chem teacher, rolled her eyes. She saw
right through him. And if she could, how much longer would it be
before everyone else did?
During the test—in which chemical
compounds morphed into ancient Hebrew right before his eyes—he
couldn’t shake the conversation with Cade. He felt bad about
letting the guy down, especially since he hadn’t been much of a
friend the last few years, but he hated those parties because of the
baggage that rode on them. Namely, his reputation.
Because who at Suttonville would
believe that the resident delinquent, skateboard-riding, drag-racing,
smart-mouthed chick magnet Kyle Sawyer was actually none of those
things?
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I want to read all of these books because I like reading young adult books and also because I really like the theme of sports/love together!
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