You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 123

 

Chapter 123

Harper

"No."

It's all I can say, alll can think. No. No. No. No. “Harper.”

He reaches for me.

All I can do is slap his phone into his hand and turn away from him. This isn't okay. Nothing about this is okay. He has a naked picture of the school counselor on his phone in order to blackmail her and he never told me.

He fucking left me that night and lied. The problem is his lies.

Had he just said, oh hey, btw, this woman is the worst and I slept with her and here's everything laid out on the table, full disclosure, like he SAID he was going to do. I feel sick to my stomach.

Forget feeling like shit this morning thanks to my cold. Nothing compares to this feeling of finding that photo on his phone.

I turn around and start to walk away. “Harper.”

The way he says my name kills a part of my soul.

He says it like a prayer every time, and it's so damn hard not to fall to my knees and worship the way he treats me or how I thought he treated me.

I think back on when I was sick and he dropped stuff off, I think back on all the times he was my rock and I wonder what I did wrong to make him feel he couldn't trust me, when he fucking lied and said he did.

want to be his as much as he's mine.

there so many obstacles the minute I think things

starting to really

It's all I really can say without puking all over the sidewalk and I make my way back into the school for my last class. Shit. I know I probably look horrible. I rush into the girls bathroom and grip the sink, then stare at my reflection, wondering why it's hard to even recognize myself anymore. The door opens. “Girl, Sadie

saw you running, are you

"Yes."

then fall into broken sobs. "No, he I—lied.

takes me three minutes to

about

I don't look like hell before I head over

winces. “Maybe just...put

doesn't fix

I point out. "No."

shoulders

it does give you more power when you're wearing lipstick. Ask my grandma, she's eighty, and red lipstick

my tears. “I knew

“Everyone clearly does."

the pink gloss, go to gym, ignore him for

only have fifty minutes of hell before you can sneak into the liquor cabinet or DoorDash

to clean up

With Aisha and Blake.

even have a phone I can utilize just in case

right now I

clothes

the side, talking to Julia, and when Blake sees me, he frowns as he

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