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

close by. I just assumed she’d be eating her carrots then throwing them up

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 life

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 laughs. “Then

my eyes shut. Embarrassment washes

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

take him however I can have him-we’re

his breath and

he actually

Upset?

even freaking

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

really felt something for me, wouldn’t he just roll his eyes and shake

Yet he’s doing nothing.

eyes are still holding

choose you, or she’s just a bitch, but it’s almost like he’s purposely pushing me

ago he was pulling me

tear slides

How embarrassing.

He reaches for me.

 

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

The coast is clear.

the door. He’s in my personal space

“That’s what you have to say

lie he can’t

said he just fucks, that this, whatever this is, means

against the door 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 if I didn’t

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