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

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

heart is pounding so loud, I can hear

of words my brother is going to scream at me when the time finally

right,” I tell her. “I’m going to call him

me back the second you

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

my stomach lurching at the thought that there might be

“Who’s at your house?”

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

hear her smiling. “Just checking, you know,

breakdown and my best friend is concerned there might be

even with

my eyes.” I make sure my voice shows how annoyed I am. “I’ll

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

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

screen to make sure I’ve called the right number.

you’re so pathetic, Harper,” she continues, “you’ll do anything

need to ask

I know.

lowered as far as it will go, it starts to

are you answering

aches as every possibility begins to run through my

just

now, he’s with

switch, he just

my heart breaks

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

His . mouth?

same one that was between

one that made me

… he’s

am going

same sound I made when he was going down on me. “Easton, oh my God, that feels so good.