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?”

screen of my phone to check

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

is pounding so loud,

me when the time finally comes. Blake

her. “I’m going to call

me back the second you hang up with

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

stomach lurching at the thought that there might be more. I hold my

“Who’s at your house?”

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

could hear her smiling. “Just checking, you

breakdown and my best friend is concerned there might be

even with

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

in my Contacts, holding the phone to my face

girl says into the phone. “How many times

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

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

don’t need to ask who

I know.

now that my stomach has lowered as far as

you

chest aches as every possibility begins to run

was just at my

now, he’s with

a switch, he just keeps flipping

time, my heart breaks a little

is”-she giggles so loudly,”tied up at the moment. Or, should I say, I’ve tied him up. But his mouth is far too busy to

His . mouth?

was between

made me come

…

going to be

moans. It’s the same sound I made when he was going down on me. “Easton, oh my God, that