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.

you see her today?” Aisha’s voice sounds from outside

be eating her carrots then throwing them up like the rest

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 a

be jealous if he hasn’t been giving me so much attention lately…well that and we kind of, you know…a few months ago, you don’t sample the goods…” She

shut. Embarrassment washes

right.” Whoever she is repeats. “It’s only a matter of time

I can have him-we’re meant

his breath

he actually

Upset?

even freaking denying

and I can’t read his face, but I suddenly don’t want to be in a

he just roll his eyes and shake his head? Or at least bust

Yet he’s doing nothing.

are

or I choose you, or she’s just a bitch, but it’s almost like

ago he was pulling me

tear slides down

How embarrassing.

He reaches for me.

 

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

The coast is clear.

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

to scream. “That’s what you have

a lie he can’t even convince

right now? The same one who said he just fucks, that this, whatever this

right? I know he’s supposed to take you out or

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