You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Harper

 I'm exhausted.

Mom and Dad have finally gone to bed, but I wouldn't put it past them to do room checks like they used to at summer camp.

I'm still downstairs with Easton bingeing some murderous documentary about a crime of passion, and some creepy stalker who always pretended to be her work friend but secretly cut pieces of her hair and slept with them in his pillow.

Ryan and Sadie are upstairs doing who knows what in the kitchen.

The creepy man on the screen continues his stalking.

Gross.

I shudder.

"Are you cold?"

Easton asks, pulling me close.

I frown.

"Is it just me or are you way too into the part where he almost gets away with it.” He shakes his head like he's disappointed in the mass murderer.

"I mean, he's an idiot, he could have made it, but noooo, he has to go back for one of those creepy pieces of hair like he didn't just kill her for rejecting him."

I scrunch up my nose.

"Weird that the husband ended up living."

"Poor guy probably wishes he were dead, imagine someone standing over you while you sleep with a butcher knife."

"Yay, what a great Christmas, so merry and bright,"

I tease and give him a hard shove.

“I'm going to have nightmares tonight about knives.” He laughs.

I turn to him and grip him by the shirt.

"I will end you if you sneak into my room, hover over me with a knife and scare the shit out of me.

I'll take that same knife and chop off both balls.” "Wouldn't that make me a eunuch?"

"Yes,"

I seethe.

"With the giant dick but a severe lack of testosterone and desire to have sex."

"Should I be scared that you just gave me an exact definition?"

He smiles.

"Chill, I won't scare you, I actually like my testicles and um..."

crooks his finger and whispers in my ear, "So do

"Do not."

sniff and look

the other day

His smile is devastating.

animal in bed, not that

up

"In fact..."

pounds so hard it

in a

this man? These kisses? He's the addiction

keep thinking he's going to get tired of us, of this, that one day we really will make it through the end

tangle with each other and the

you and I

he says between kisses.

about your dad coming

and kisses

messing with

your erection, that's new,’ I tease, kissing

quickly unbuttoning his jeans and pressing me back against my

but never saw this in my future, I was too afraid to hope for it as he guides himself

body instantly relaxes, basically sucking him in and saying a

he's right, I'm so sensitive and emotional I can't even control my own body as

hips and looks up at the stairway like he's afraid then looks back

was going to warn you about how fast I was going to go but fuck, it's even worse than I thought.” He bites down

you have a magic

there is

laugh and it makes the pressure shift just enough for his angle to hit the perfect little

know

if It's just

is Mom can never find out that the couch has

as Easton pulls

mess, like a way bigger

"I got it."

bar with an array of paper

as he rubs

that...the only reason I have

tugs my shorts back up and wipes

shotguns that he probably doesn't even know how to

"Perfect."

the trash in the corner, taking one look at the wash-—rag

my dick, making your prophetic

drops the towel and

he pulls me into his arms, kissing me on the top of the

feel your stress,

hot against mine,

as we sit with the

know that I'm here, by