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, '

still conditioner in my hair and I only

"No, not that. '

face, holding it so my chin

that was definitely sexy as fuck, but that's not what I meant

over to the bed, sitting me in the spot where I've

switching it on,

while we're still in our towels, he covers us with a throw blanket and pulls

his hand through my wet hair, our

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

I've never

of nowhere and I can't hold it

my elbow, so I can look at his face, hoping his eyes can tell me what he's talking

felt this way

voice is so soft, honest, purer than

my head when we're not around each other, like

to protect anyone as much as I want

like what I want to do to Blake and Aisha for what

Harper ... '

my face, holding

firsts for me and they're

swallow, the tightness now in

emotion is coming from, but it's

know how I feel about you.

He shakes his head.

you've never

"Said ...it? '

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 shown

to think I haven't expressed

thought, if anything, that's

I feel terribly disappointed in myself that you feel that

on his chest, realizing the placement is above his heart the minute I start

you don't know there isn't anything I wouldn't do for you, that I'm positive there's no other man more perfect for me

"Not that, Harper. '

into my cheek and I nuzzle into

I mean is, you've never told me you love

so hard,

Love.

word I've only ever said to Sadie

no question, I've

it was there

I wouldn't have chased him, I wouldn't have put

here.Head over heels.In love