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 time. “About twenty minutes. Maybe a

Ryan’s car tomorrow morning for school, you need to know what you’re walking

is pounding so

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

“I’m going to

second

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

at the thought that there might be more. I hold

“Who’s at your house?”

gently lift the curtain to take another peek outside. “Just

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

and my best friend is concerned there might be a girl here, vying for Ryan’s

even with

make sure my voice shows how

disconnect our call and find Easton in my Contacts, holding the phone to my face as

Desperate is calling,” a girl says into the phone. “How many times a day do you call Easton?

to make sure I’ve called the right number. My stomach drops when I see that I

so pathetic, Harper,” she continues, “you’ll

to

I know.

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

are you answering

possibility begins

was just at

now, he’s

a switch, he just keeps flipping between

my heart breaks a

Or, should I say, I’ve tied him up. But his mouth is far too busy

His . mouth?

one that was

made me come so hard, I

… he’s licking

going to

he was going down on me. “Easton, oh my God, that