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.

Aisha’s voice sounds

carrots then

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,

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

shut. Embarrassment washes

only a matter of time before

him however I can have him-we’re

curses under his breath

he actually

Upset?

not even

I suddenly don’t want to be in a closet with him anymore. I don’t want to be in the same school or

really felt something for me, wouldn’t he just roll his eyes and shake his head? Or at least bust out of the closet and call her

Yet he’s doing nothing.

are still

something like it’s not true, or I choose you, or she’s

he was pulling me

slides down my

How embarrassing.

He reaches for me.

 

bat his hands away. It hurts to breathe. A knot forms in my throat. I don’t hear them anymore, so I open the door before he can stop me and look down

The coast is clear.

pull me back and shut the door. He’s in my personal space again, his eyes wild.

to scream. “That’s what you have to say to

he can’t even

one who said he just fucks, that this,

hand against the door behind me, cursing under his breath. “Promise me, all right? I know he’s supposed to take

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