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?”

my phone to check the

and find out what happened once the boys went downstairs. Before you get into Ryan’s car tomorrow morning for

pounding so loud, I

to scream at me when the time finally comes. Blake or Easton-I don’t know which one he’ll

tell her. “I’m going to call him

the second you hang up

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

thought that there might be more.

“Who’s at your house?”

the curtain to take another peek outside. “Just the boys-Blake, Ryan, and

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

having a mental breakdown and my best friend is concerned there might be a girl here, vying for

can’t even with

could see how hard I’m rolling my eyes.” I make sure my voice shows how annoyed

our call and find Easton 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

right number. My stomach drops when I

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

to

I know.

lowered as far

why are you answering Easton’s

aches as every possibility

just

he’s with

just keeps flipping

time, my heart breaks a

moment. Or, should I say, I’ve tied him up. But

His . mouth?

same one that was

that made me come

… he’s

really am going

made when he was going down on me.