Unintentional Virgin by A.J. Bennett Page B

felt like it went over the bridge with him. She was more afraid he wasn’t going to come back up than she had been about her own self. Relief washed over her when she saw him bounce back up. He was hooting and hollering. Karma stood there grinning like a fool when he came back toward her. He’s mine , she thought and then wondered where the hell those words came from. He was far from hers. Okay, well he was hers—for a couple more weeks anyway. 
    She threw her arms around him, and he spun her around.  Karma squealed with delight. Best day of her life. 
    Just as they were getting ready to leave Jax pulled his phone out of his pocket. “Your dad insisted on a pic of us together.” He held his arm back and placed his head next to hers and snapped the pic. 
    “Can you send that to me?” Karma asked. It would be nice to have a memento of their time together.
    “Yep, now let’s get out of here.” 
    Karma called her dad when she got into the truck to put his mind at ease that she was in fact still in one piece. And then they made the long drive back. 
    “Is it pathetic that this might possibly be the best day of my life?” Karma asked, her face still flushed. 
    Jax glanced over at her as if trying to see if she was joking or not. “No, that’s not pathetic at all. Honestly, I can’t remember the last time I had this much fun either,” he admitted. 
    “What are we going to do next on the list?” Karma scooted toward the middle of the seat. It was like he was a magnet, and she couldn’t resist the pull. She had to be as close to him as possible. 
    “I’ll look over it tonight. Where did you get the list anyway?”
    “Off the Internet,” Karma said sheepishly. 
    “You didn’t make up any of it?” he asked, taken aback. 
    “Well, I added number one.” 
    Jax shook his head. “I’ll be looking at this list with new eyes now.” 
    “You have to admit there are some good ones on there.”
    “There are a lot of good ones on there,” Jax agreed. 
    “Especially the skinny-dipping.” Karma grinned. 
    “True, that’s one of my favorites. Have you ever been?” Jax asked. 
    Karma shook her head no. “What about you?”
    “I’ve been a few times.” 
    Karma was surprised to feel jealous. Of course he'd been skinny-dipping before. I mean look at him. If she had a body like his, she’d walk around naked all the time. 
    “A bunch of the guys would strip down and go for a swim after boxing practice.”
    “Guys? You’ve gone skinny-dipping with guys?” Karma’s eyes widened. That was not at all what she was expecting. 
    “Sure, it’s not a big deal. Guys are always walking around the locker room naked.” 
    Did they? Showed how much she knew. In the girls’ locker rooms they were rarely fully naked. Mostly they just walked around in bras and panties. 
    “So never with a female?” Karma asked, tilting her head to look at him. She didn’t know why she was pushing the issue. It was probably something she’d rather not know.
    Jax drummed his fingers on the steering wheel. “Hmm, well once at summer camp, I think I was like fifteen, guys and girls went skinny-dipping. Let’s just say I’m glad it was dark or I would have embarrassed myself.”
    It took Karma a minute to get what he meant. “I’m sure that’s true about most teen boys.”
    Jax smiled and her heart melted a little more. Soon she would be nothing but a puddle in the seat.  “So you were a boxer?”
    “Yep, All State. Boxed a little in college but had to stop.”
    “Why?” Karma knew absolutely nothing about boxing. But the thought of him sweaty and kicking the shit out of someone was sort of a turn-on. Okay, that was an understatement. 
    “Brain rattled around a few too many times.” 
    “Oh. That doesn’t sound good.” Karma looked over at him, concerned. Scratch the turn-on. Nope, still pretty freaking hot. Maybe that’s why she always felt safe around him. He gave off an air of confidence and