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..."

and whispers in my ear, "So

"Do not."

and

them so hard the other day I was afraid you were

His smile is devastating.

a wild animal in bed, not that

up his

"In fact..."

my heart pounds so hard it almost makes

meet in a hungry

how did I ever survive without this man? These kisses? He's the addiction your mom

this, that one day we

answers that question as our legs tangle with each other and the blankets on

and I want this

he says between kisses.

I can't stop thinking about your

groans and

messing with

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

quickly unbuttoning his

I dreamt about it but never saw this in my future, I was too

used to brace for how big his dick was, but now my body instantly relaxes, basically sucking him in

so sensitive and emotional I can't even control my own body as I get dangerously close within a

the stairway like he's

how fast I was going to go but fuck, it's even worse than I thought.”

baby, you have a

all there is

it makes the pressure shift just enough for his angle

don't know what I

It's just

has joined the soon to be long list of

embarrassed as Easton

a mess, like a way bigger mess

"I got it."

returns from the downstairs wet bar with an array of paper towels and a warm rag from the

he

"Gonna have to not do that...the only reason I have self

as he tugs my shorts back up and wipes down

old shotguns that he probably

"Perfect."

eyes and gathers the used paper towels, tossing them in the trash in the corner,

your prophetic story actually come true.” I

drops the towel and

is that funny?” “Hilarious.” I laugh again as he pulls me into his arms, kissing me on the top of

can feel your

body is hot against mine,

with the reflection of the documentary

that I'm