Chapter 71

Harper

“Easton.” I nudge his bare shoulder, silently marveling at the muscle I feel there. He’s firm -hard all over. If I had more time, I’d spend it exploring his naked body with my mouth. My tongue. My hands and my fingers.

But we don’t have the time. My parents should be home from work any minute while we’re still in my bed.

Naked.

“Wha?” he asks, his voice muffled against the pillow.

Within minutes of us having sex, he collapsed next to me and fell asleep. Like…who does that?

Easton, I guess. Any other time I would’ve found it adorable, but I wanted to talk more about Blake and what Easton and my brother discovered in his car. I wanted to stare at those photos some more and really look at them. I also wanted to ask him about that look he and Ryan shared earlier, when they didn’t say anything.

What’s their plan? And how can I convince him he can’t just go beat Blake up over this?

They’re friends. They need to work it out.

There’s also that tiny, niggling feeling in the back of my mind that tells me Blake didn’t do this at all.

Aisha did.

Unfortunately, I can’t seem to convince Easton that she’s evil enough to come for me. Why does he always protect her? Or write her off? It’s so annoying.

Why won’t he believe me?

Shoving my worry aside, I focus on waking Easton up and getting him out of my bed.

“My parents are going to be home soon,” I whisper, then let myself speak louder. “You should go.”

hair,

lazy grin on his face is a heart

for his shirt and toss it at him,

fades, the shirt falling in his lap. “Damn. Ruthless,

and drop a kiss on his lips. “Not in the mood to

before he reaches for

raking my fingers through my

“What’s wrong?”

smiling

huh. I don’t believe him. He’s keeping secrets from

At all.

head out of my room and down the stairs, and I notice how quiet the house is. Where’s Ryan and Sadie? Did

her for Easton, after complaining to her that Easton

I’ll call her later and apologize. I need to get my head out of my ass and

keeping

 

soft, his hair still sex rumpled. He’s absolutely

or something.

like he’s

do that more often.” He kisses me, his

hot and I press my fingers against his lips. “Shush. We can’t talk

fingers and he delivers another scorching

him so | can open the door without him in the

know what to do with me. “Sure. I’ll text

he’s staring at me so I give him another kiss to soften my sudden

my shoulders, his expression serious as he studies me. “You do realize Blake did that to your garage door, right? It wasn’t

smile serene. “You’re

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