You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Easton

From my classroom, I can hear Aisha’s voice in the hallway, the rotten snarkiness in her tone, the evil words she’s spewing. My teacher isn’t going to do anything to stop Aisha, she just continues lecturing, but I can’t ignore what I’m hearing because I know there’s only one person who can be taking those verbal punches.

My fucking girl.

I tell my teacher I’m going to the bathroom and haul ass into the hallway. I make it just in time to see Aisha yanking on Harper’s hair.

That fucking bitch. She’s pushed every goddamn button of mine … and I have no patience left.

I’m seeing red by the time I growl my second warning at her, “Did you fucking hear me, Aisha? Let her go right now.” When she stops tugging on her hair but doesn’t let Harper go, I tear Aisha’s hand away, freeing Harper, and pull her into my arms. “Are you all right?” I ask her.

It takes her a second to respond, “Yes.”

The hatred pulsing through my body makes my jaws tighten. “Don’t ever touch my girl again.”

“Your .* girl?” Aisha stammers.

“Yes. My fucking girl.”

“That’s what she is to you now? But what was the other night? When you were in my room, between my,”

“Harper and I are together now.” While I hold Harper against my chest, I glare at Aisha, disgusted by the innocent look on her face. “You need to accept that and stop all this bullshit.” My arm lowers, wrapping around Harper’s curvy waist. “If you have a problem, you take it up with me, not Harper. Do you understand me?”

“But Easton-”

“The only thing I want to hear from you is yes.”

I don’t wait for her to say it, since I know she’s not going to, and I turn Harper around and lead us in the opposite direction, holding her tightly to my side. “Do you want to get out of here?” I ask when we’re halfway down the hall.

“Here?” There’s emotion in her voice. “You mean school? But we still have a few periods to go.”

“I’ll get us excused.”

“How?”

to

She nods. “Okay.”

be right back, don’t move.” I walk inside, stopping at the counter, waiting

as she approaches.

reach into my wallet, pulling out a fifty that I slip under her fingers. “I need to be excused from school and so does

longer than she needs to, pulling away to put the

“Yes.”

that sits next to the phone. “Looks like your mom

hooked up only once, and then she felt guilty that I was

the once

mom?” | ask. “She happen to call,

phone call from her

her shoulders. “Let’s go to your locker, grab what you need,

to

adorable. “No, not even

locker, and she starts putting her books into her bag.

“Do what?”

exit, and she looks at me as she heads through the doorway, my stare slowly lifting from her ass. “Make everything

breeze of freedom flies over my face. “I don’t

minute of detention, you stopped Aisha from strangling me to death. What else can you

of her tongue. The grind of her hips against me is what finally makes me tear my lips away. “I’m going to eat your fucking pussy.” I press my nose to

moans against my

second we get to

me how ready she is. I hurry to the other side and start the engine, pulling out of my spot and onto the

to ask

upper thigh, noticing