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 sounds from outside the closet.

be eating her carrots then throwing them up like the rest

sounds like Julia, but it could be Court too. “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

squeeze my eyes shut. Embarrassment washes over

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

take him however I can

curses under his breath and pulls away from

is he actually

Upset?

not even

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

his eyes and shake his head? Or at

Yet he’s doing nothing.

eyes are still

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

was pulling

tear slides down

How embarrassing.

He reaches for me.

 

my throat. I don’t hear them anymore, so I open the door before he can

The coast is clear.

shut the door. He’s

scream. “That’s what you

like he’s telling me a lie he can’t even convince himself

guy for real right now? The same one who said he just fucks, that this, whatever this is, means nothing, is giving me

door behind me, cursing under his breath. “Promise me, all right? I know

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