You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 130

Easton

Winter break is upon us and I swear to God, I can breathe easier.

Helps that finals are over, and my girlfriend isn't so damn stressed out all the time.

Helps even more that her parents have loosened the leash they latched onto her after the Christmas tree incident, and they're letting her go out more.

Not too sure if she's telling them she's actually going out with me, though.

That's something I need to bring up to her soon, but for now, I'll take her any way I can get her.

As long as she's in a good mood.

And finally, she is.

Soam I. I pull into the gas station that's not too far from campus and park next to a pump.

The place is busy, full of cars and I notice the one parked on the other side of the pump I'm at.

It's familiar, and as I'm inserting my credit card into the machine, I notice the passenger seat and the backseat are full of boxes and belongings.

Like someone is moving.

against my car and wait for the

theater, since Harper isn't ready to bring me back around the parents yet. I'm

on their daughter, and that is some fucked up

from my brain once and for all, but I know the next time I see

life, that was messed up. I scratch the back of my neck, my gaze snagging on the woman approaching the

about her is familiar

Leigh.

sneer forming on her face as she rolls her eyes. "You would

give two shits about

inside, because she's undoing her gas cap with jerky movements and shoving the gas pump nozzle into her tank so roughly

who used me. At least I was able to use her too. "You get

thanks to you,’ she mutters. “I had nothing to

feel the need to reveal that to her, I don't

snarls at me. "My husband kicked me out of the

through my hair, bored already. "Guess I can't blame him. You were

"You're a pig,"

at me, already yanking the nozzle out of her tank and putting it away. "I hate you.

who messed with my head, you know. I was a minor back

remind her. “And you enjoyed every minute of it, you little

me and I push away from the car, standing my ground. "You think you're so

found out for

hating her

hear me. "You're nothing but a facade. A fake. Pretty face, I'll give

Nice body.

all you've got going