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?”

at the screen of my phone to check

downstairs. Before you get into Ryan’s car tomorrow morning for school,

is pounding so loud,

choice of words my brother is going to scream at me

“I’m

back the second you hang

“Okay,”

“Wait.”

thought that there might be more. I hold my breath and say

“Who’s at your house?”

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

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

concerned

even with

rolling my eyes.” I make sure my voice shows how annoyed I am.

call and find Easton in my Contacts, holding the phone

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

right number. My stomach drops when I see

Harper,” she continues, “you’ll

need to ask who it

I know.

lowered as far as it

are you

every possibility begins

was just

he’s with

he just keeps flipping

my heart breaks a

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

His . mouth?

one that was between

same one that made me

now … he’s

going to be

was going down on me. “Easton, oh my God, that feels so good. Don’t