You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 40

Chapter 40

Harper

I really need to stop following Easton into dark corners and closets, and he really needs to stop giving me mixed signals.

I’m still pissed about the other day.

And even angrier that it feels like he’s toying with me because he knows he can. Am I really that weak of a person?

Am I that girl?

I hate that girl.

Everyone does

I pull away from him after biting down on his lower lip, tasting him, and wanting to inflict violence on his person for no reason other than a warning.

He flinches when I pull back.

His bottom lip is red from where I bit him and so enticing that I suddenly get a glimpse into what drug addiction is all about and why they teach you to never try anything once.

I tried Easton.

And now I’m in a friggin closet when I should be eating my lunch.

His hands move to my hips.

Everything pulses inside my body, my blood, my heartbeat.

His eyes are crazed, like he’s not himself.

her today?” Aisha’s

her carrots then throwing them

best friend.” It sounds like Julia, but it could be Court too. “I mean, don’t

me so much attention lately…well that and we kind of, you know…a few months ago, you don’t

eyes shut. Embarrassment washes over

is repeats. “It’s only a matter of

however I can have

curses under his breath and pulls away from

he actually

Upset?

not even

his face, but I suddenly don’t want to be in a closet with him anymore. I don’t

me, wouldn’t he just roll his eyes and shake his head? Or at least bust

Yet he’s doing nothing.

eyes are

him down, willing him to say something like it’s not true, or I choose you, or she’s just a bitch, but

he was

slides

How embarrassing.

He reaches for me.

 

breathe. A knot forms in my throat. I don’t hear them anymore, so I open the door before

The coast is clear.

only to have Easton pull me back and shut the door. He’s in my personal space again, his

I want to scream. “That’s what you have to

he’s telling me a lie he can’t even convince himself of. “He’s

said he just fucks, that this, whatever this

the door behind me, cursing under his breath. “Promise me, all right? I know he’s supposed to take you out or whatever, but I

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