You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 134

Chapter 134
Harper
Easton and Dad return from the patio and Easton looks like he's seen a ghost.

Or an entire colony or paranormal creatures.

He's pale and sweaty and I feel terrible for him.

I can't believe Dad hauled him outside.

Well, I can, but I can't imagine what he said to him.

Part of me wants to ask Easton when we get a minute alone, and part of me would rather never know to save myself the embarrassment.

“Are you all right?"

I whisper the moment he's at my side.

"No."

He wipes his forehead.

"I'll never recover from that conversation.

Ever."

I glance at my dad who's now standing next to my mom as she adds dressing to the salad.

The two of them smiling at each other, like they just checked the final item off their list.

"Was it that bad?"

“Let's put it this way ..."

He glances toward the oven.

“If there are buns in there, baking, don't serve me one."

He adjusts his shirt and I see the sweat marks under his arms.

"In fact, I don't know if I'll ever eat another bun again."

Oh God.

It was THAT bad.

"I'm going to go add ice to the water glasses,"

I declare, and quickly fill a large bowl with cubes and carry it into the dining room, Easton on my heels.

When I get us out of ear range, I say softly, "What did he say to you?"

He holds onto the back of a chair.

"Oh, he covered it all—birth control, pregnancy, not being allowed in your room or touching you under his roof, you going to college, dropping out of college because of me."

He pauses.

"I think I've covered most of it."

"I think I'm going to be sick."

He shakes his head.

"That makes two of us."

I drop the ice into the glasses and move over to him.

He immediately takes a step back.

And then another.

“Easton?"

"I don't want him to think anything is happening in here."

"Seriously?"

the bowl on the

like that?*

out there

you have no idea."

"Ugh."

to kill my father, but I

come

Except ...

I really

will be off to

I will be, too.

places aren't anywhere near each

done, can you grab it from the

mother calls

she stopped hearing the clink of ice being put in

already

"Be right back,"

kitchen, grabbing

gone, and Mom is cutting and plating the garlic

“Mom?"

knife

“Mmm—hmm?"

this,

the wrath from

Can we...

I don't know ...

nod toward

noise making a clank against the

think you're in a position to

puts her hands on her

just got off thin

have your phone

neck every time

it,

don’t care where we end up, graduation needs to happen

her a taste of her own

armrrrived, Ryan shouts from the front door, in

floods through

is standing, he mouths,

“You're late,"

punching my brother in the arm as

she was being

“Ryan!"

her face

"He's lying!"

Ryan hello, not an

course, she doesn't get upset by

He's a son.

don't

Ugh.

Again.

“How's it going?"

whispers as

looks like he's about to

he

"That good, huh?"

I was going to have to fake an illness or drop the lasagna or set the kitchen sink

out of our hug,

"I'm glad you didn't.

horrible liar and not

you for life and the next time you'd see Easton, you'd

laughing at the

So does Sadie.

of tonight and all the anxiousness I've been feeling makes me

“What's so funny?"

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