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?”

the screen of my phone to check the time. “About twenty minutes. Maybe

Easton and find out what happened once the boys went downstairs. Before you get into Ryan’s car tomorrow morning for school, you need to know what you’re walking into-whether he’s oblivious

is pounding so loud, I

to scream at me when the time finally comes. Blake or

I tell her. “I’m going to call

the second you

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

thought that there might be more. I

“Who’s at your house?”

has changed in the last few minutes, I gently lift the curtain to take another peek outside. “Just the boys-Blake, Ryan, and the

could hear her smiling. “Just checking, you know, for

best friend is concerned there might be a girl here,

can’t even

make sure my voice shows how annoyed I am.

in my Contacts, holding the phone to my face as it

am I not surprised to see Miss Desperate is calling,” a girl says into the phone. “How many times a day

sure I’ve called the right number. My stomach

continues, “you’ll do anything

to

I know.

stomach has lowered as far as it will go, it starts to

are you answering Easton’s

every possibility begins to run through my

just

he’s

just keeps

my heart breaks a little

say, I’ve tied him up. But his mouth is far

His . mouth?

same one that was between my

me come so hard,

now … he’s licking

going to be

going down