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.

did you see her today?” Aisha’s voice

just assumed she’d be eating her carrots then throwing them up like the rest of the cheer

like he has to babysit her because he’s Ryan’s best friend.” It sounds like Julia, but it could be Court too. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, good for Easton. He’s doing his charity work, but, damn, he has

giving me so much attention lately…well that and we kind of, you know…a few months ago, you

squeeze my eyes shut. Embarrassment

so right.” Whoever she is repeats. “It’s only a

I can have him-we’re meant

under his breath

he actually

Upset?

even freaking denying

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

he just roll his eyes and shake his head? Or at least bust out of the closet and

Yet he’s doing nothing.

are

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

he was pulling me

slides down my

How embarrassing.

He reaches for me.

 

I don’t hear them anymore, so I open the door before he

The coast is clear.

move only to have Easton pull me back and shut the door. He’s in my

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

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

for real right now? The same one who said he just

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

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