You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 48

Harper

“I think I’m going to be sick,” I say to Sadie the second she answers her phone.

“Why? What’s going on?”

I’m huddled on my bed, looking out my window to the backyard where the boys are all sitting around the table, smoking weed.

Everyone except for Easton.

After he told me to go back in my room, a few minutes later I heard his engine rev and I watched him drive away and he hasn’t returned. And now Blake is sitting next to Ryan, the seat Easton had been in.

But I’ve still been watching, waiting, hoping he comes back.

“Blake saw us,” I whisper, even though none of the boys can hear me.

“Saw who?”

“Me and Easton, kissing in the doorway of my bedroom.”

“Whoa.”

“And Easton and Blake got into it and Blake asked me who I liked kissing more.”

“What did you say?”

I run my hand over my forehead, my pick so obvious to both of us. “Nothing, Easton saved me before I had to answer. Sadie, this is a total nightmare.”

“No, a nightmare will be if Blake tells Ryan. Do you think he’s going to?”

The thought has been haunting me and I don’t know what to do about it. I definitely can’t go downstairs and ask Blake, that’ll just be weird. And I don’t want to ask my

brother to come upstairs so we can talk, that will be even weirder.

When Ryan hears I’ve made out with both of his best friends, he’s going to kill me.

“Oh God,” I groan, rocking over my bed. “I hope not.”

“What’s happening now? Where are the boys?” I fill her in on the logistics of everyone, and then she asks, “How long has Easton been gone?”

glance at the screen of my phone to check the

the boys went downstairs. Before you get into Ryan’s car

so loud, I can hear

at me when

tell her. “I’m

second you

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

might

“Who’s at your house?”

anything has changed in the last few minutes, I gently lift the curtain to take

“Just checking,

my best friend is concerned there might be a girl

even

wish you could see how hard I’m rolling my eyes.” I make sure my voice shows how annoyed I am. “I’ll

my Contacts, holding the phone to my

girl says into the phone. “How many times a day do you call

right number. My stomach

Harper,” she continues, “you’ll do anything

need to

I know.

lowered as far as it will go, it starts to

are you answering Easton’s

as every possibility begins to

just at

he’s with

just keeps

my heart breaks a

loudly,”tied up at the moment. Or, should I say, I’ve

His . mouth?

was between my legs

one that made me come so hard, I saw

… he’s

am going to

sound I made when he was going