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.

see her today?” Aisha’s voice

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

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

sounds annoyed. “I mean, I guess I’d 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

squeeze my eyes shut.

she is repeats. “It’s only a matter of time before

can have him-we’re

curses under his breath and pulls away from

is he actually

Upset?

not even freaking

don’t want to be in a closet with him anymore. I don’t want to be in the

shake his head? Or at least bust out of

Yet he’s doing nothing.

eyes are still

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

he was

tear slides

How embarrassing.

He reaches for me.

 

in my throat. I don’t hear them anymore, so I open

The coast is clear.

to have Easton pull me back and shut the door. He’s

“That’s what you have to say

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

Is this guy for real right now? The same one who said he just fucks,

behind me, cursing under his breath. “Promise me, all right? I know he’s supposed to take you out or whatever, but I wouldn’t be a good friend

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