You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 69

Harper

Sadie and I are still chatting in the living room when we hear car engines pulling into the driveway. Then the slamming of car doors.

Sadie’s eyes widen and she turns toward the window that faces the front of the house. “Oh shit. Your brother’s here.” She hesitates. “And he brought Easton with him.”

My heart skips a beat. I’m both excited and angry, which is not a normal combination for me to experience. I want to see Easton, but I’m also still really mad at him for ditching me

for Ryan. I know they’re best friends but…

I jump to my feet at the same time the front door bangs open and Ryan and Easton walk

They’re angry. I can feel it radiate from the both of them, see it written all over their faces. And it’s super intimidating. They’re both so big and broad, their expressions fierce, jaws clenched, mouths grim.

Sadie remains frozen on the loveseat, as if she’s afraid to move and I stand there in front of the both of them, ready to face them down.

They don’t scare me.

Well, not really

“Where the hell were you?” I ask with way more bravado than I’m feeling, my gaze on

Easton.

Ryan takes a step toward me. “Harp, you need to sit down. We have to tell you something.”

“Blake did it,” Easton says without hesitation.

Ryan sends Easton an irritated look. “Nice. Real smooth.”

confused. “Did

on the garage door. It was Blake.” Easton reaches behind him,

step backward. Then another one, like! need the distance. “No. No way. I don’t believe it. He’s my friend,

the phone into my face, a shadowy photo

trying to make out

All black. In the back of Blake’s car. He fucking did it, Harper. He’s

Sadie, who looks as horrified

his SUV in a restaurant parking lot and I walked up to the car to make sure it was his before I went inside because I was going to chill with him, you know? But then I saw the cans.” Ryan

him. He wanted me to see the evidence,” Easton

about me and Easton getting together, but Blake is a total player. He can find another girl to occupy his time. Not like he wanted anything serious from

locker. The cars. The garage door. He’s responsible for all of it

holds up her hand as if she’s in class, and Easton goes silent. “The locker and car

the hell are you talking

they use for windows and whatever on game days,”

washable paint?” |

snaps her fingers. “That. The locker and the cars were painted with removable, washable paint. Yet the

are you saying? That two people are responsible

don’t know. Whoever did the stuff

with whatever’s on hand at the time. We were at school, so

to something,” Ryan says

that many enemies? Bullshit,” Easton spits

myself. And now there are people at school who

makes absolutely

I can only think of one person who hates

I announce. “That bitch hates my guts. She confronted me in the

meaningful look but otherwise

the hell was

Sadie noticed