The Assignment

2.5 ⭐

REVIEW WITH DETAILS AHEAD

Aspyn is assigned to chaperone Mr Serrano and his grandson after the latter smuggled him out of the home. When she finds out that the troublemaker is Troy Serrano, the guy who cheated on her best friend in high school she pukes out flames from her mouth.
Instantly she doesn't want to continue with the chaperoning but she has no choice:

I’d ask management to assign someone else to chaperone your outings, but we don’t have the staff to accommodate an alternate

So throughout the two hours that she has to spend with the men, Troy and her have constant banter because of how much they hate each other and this causes Mr Serrano to constantly disappear because he knows they won't stop:

I figured I’d leave you two to go on with your arguing

The more they spend time together, the more Troy seem to want to crack her because he wants to leave the past there and move on from it:

Damn, she was a hard nut to crack

Aspyn then tells her now married with a child, bestfriend (Jasmine) that she met her ex and she has to be with him for four hours a week. Jasmine reveals juicy information that:

Troy was the first guy to really make me come. That’s not something you forget

I wonder what will Jasmine's husband think.

Aspyn realises a stirring in her because when Jasmine revealed it she:

What she’d said about Troy had me hot and bothered for some reason, and that was…disturbing

but she receives her blessing from Jasmine to go ahead should she want to:

So, I just want you to know that if for some reason you feel like going for it, that would be okay with me

But Aspyn is sure no guy would pick her from the dating app because:

Not only that, but guys don’t normally love it when you tell them you’re basically a single mom during the week

because she takes care of her niece after her sister's passing. She then decides to revive her dating app just to accidentally swipe right on Troy who wants to fix things with her because he wants to make things right after hurting her:

For some reason, it’s important to me to make things right with you

so after some back and forth banter Troy realised he couldn't sleep because Aspyn kept him up:

Instead, I kept having imaginary arguments with her in my head

The next time they met Troy asked Aspyn out for dinner on Friday, "as friends" but Aspyn turned him down so he gets advice from his grandpa that he should stop thinking with his dick:

It’s coming from below the belt

So on Friday coincidentally Troy was right outside the bar Aspyn was with her date at and he crashed his car onto another infront making Aspyn come out of the bar to check on Troy. Her date then tells her its rude to talk to another man while on a date so she flips him off and somehow Troy manages to bring her out for dinner at a sushi restaurant. After dinner then he realises that:

Tonight had made me realize how much I liked her

So Troy sets up a dinner on Saturday with Aspyn and Kiki (the niece) to get to know both of them. Kiki then shares that:

Play video games, I guess. He wiped his mouth. What do you play? Super Mario

Me too girl me too.

And then halfway through dinner Kiki gets her first period at 8 and 1/2 years old (feels a little bit too fucking early for me) but this means Aspyn and Troy get to spend alone time together. They share each other's lives which ends in an awkward goodbye because Troy doesn't want to leave. Her shares with his cat about his complicated feelings:

Where’s that gonna get me if she doesn’t like me back?

But then we find out Aspyn talking to her mum about her unfortunate feelings towards Troy:

I’m extremely attracted to him, though I don’t like admitting that

but then realises Troy is the manwhore who cheated on her bff so she told herself she won't be climbing up the Troy tree.

The next day at work Aspyn is told she doesn't need to do any more chaperoning which Troy groans in protest to. So at the end of the day Troy decides to confess to Aspyn about his one sided crush and how much he thinks about her with his pants off. This scares Aspyn off which makes her tell him that they shouldn't see each other anymore but if that's the case we won't have more chapters so.....

Blah blah blah then Aspyn goes out with her colleague to the bar and she spots Troy with a woman and she gets upset so she frequently looks over at him. She then gets caught in the act and Troy texts her to meet him at the back of the bar and they have a lame kiss. Then Troy asks Aspyn if he can send her home and she asked this:

Can you even drive? I asked. I saw you drinking

yet gets into the car even after knowing he did, especially after her sister and her bf were killed in a car crash too. Death wish? I think so

But fast forward, Aspyn brings Troy home and they bang each other because:

That little bit of hate you still have left for me in there somewhere? Yeah? I panted. I’m about to fuck it out of you. Hard.

just for it to end in less than 10 seconds because Troy couldn't keep it in.

OKay I'm getting tired of writing a long review for this book because it is just the same theme of fighting and getting back together and mingling with the other people around them. So I'll end it off by saying they screwed more, they dated and their love-hate relationship turned into a just love relationship.