You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 105

Harper

Easton wraps a towel around me before grabbing one for himself and we get out of the shower.

There's an ache between my legs, a soreness in my nipples, my ass still stinging from everything he had done to me while we were in there.

Everything he had made me feel.

Everything he had done to my body.

Sadie had spoken about sex before she started dating my brother.

She told me about the things I could expect, the physical part, anyway.

She described it in ways so I could somewhat anticipate what was going to happen the first time I was with Easton.

But she never told me about this—this feeling in my chest whenever I'm with him.

This tightness.

This fluttering that loops up to my throat, an endless pattern of puttering, pounding, and pure affection.

I can't get enough of him.

Or of his smile, which is spread across his lips right now, watching me in the mostly fogged up mirror above the sink, just enough of a clear sliver that I can see his eyes as he moves behind me.

He grabs another towel and wipes the drips off my back and shoulders and the ones that fall down over my elbows.

When he's done, he turns me toward him, and pulls me into his arms.

"I've never been so thankful for a storm, 'he says.

"Why? '

“Because this wouldn't have happened. '

I feel a blush move past my cheeks, stealing a quick glance at the shower.

It was a performance that even surprised me.

Knowing Easton appreciates my curves makes me more secure in my body.

His love of my body makes me want to try things, it makes me want to step outside that box that I originally felt so comfortable in.

"That was one of the best showers I've ever taken, '

there's still conditioner

"No, not that. '

face, holding it so my chin is aimed up at him, his eyes scanning

as fuck, but that's not what I meant at all.

sitting me in the spot

switching it on, the

while we're still in our towels, he covers us

his hand through my wet hair,

what's on his mind, what this is, but he beats me

I've never really done this,

and I can't hold it in

can look at his face, hoping his eyes can tell me what he's

felt this

soft, honest,

never worried about anyone before—things that run through my head when we're not around each other, like if you're okay,

never wanted to protect anyone as much

want to do to Blake and Aisha for what they've

Harper ... '

fingers are back on my face, holding me,

for me and they're all because

tightness now

it's clear, it's present, it's taking over, and

know how I feel

He shakes his head.

never said

"Said ...it? '

can think of plenty of times when I told him I was crazy about him, I can think of hundreds of examples of ways I've

him to think I haven't expressed

that's something I'm

I feel terribly disappointed in myself that you feel that

rest my hand on his chest, realizing the placement is above his heart the minute I start feeling the

don't know how I feel about you, that you don't know there isn't anything I wouldn't

"Not that, Harper. '

presses into my cheek and I nuzzle into his

you've never told

me so

Love.

I've only ever said to Sadie

question, I've

it was there from

I didn't always want more from him, I wouldn't have chased him, I wouldn't have put up with all the different ways he had treated

here.Head over heels.In love