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.

my car and wait

going to the movies and we're meeting at the theater, since Harper isn't ready to bring me back around the parents

down on their daughter,

Wipe that shit from my brain once and for all, but I know

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

about her is familiar and I know in an instant who it

Leigh.

forming on her face as she rolls her eyes. "You would be the last person I have to see before I

against the car, pretending I could give two shits about seeing her, though I can't

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

She's a conniving little bitch who used me. At least I

had nothing to do with that.

the need to reveal that to

husband kicked me out

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

"You're a pig,"

me, already yanking the nozzle out of her tank and putting

the one who messed with my head, you know. I was a minor back then. You broke

every minute of it, you little

away from the car, standing my ground. "You think you're

to get found out for who you really

hating her

but it's like she doesn't even hear me. "You're

Nice body.

But that's all you've got going