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..."

his finger and whispers in my ear, "So do

"Do not."

sniff and look

other day I was afraid you were going to bite

His smile is devastating.

like a wild animal in bed, not that I'm complaining

up

"In fact..."

my heart pounds so hard it almost makes my chest

meet in

ever survive without this man? These kisses?

that one day we really will make it through the end of the movie

question as our legs tangle with each other and the blankets

you and I want this to

he says between kisses.

after watching the whole man with the butcher knife, I can't stop thinking about your dad coming down the stairs with

groans and kisses

with my

with your erection, that's new,’ I

sides and tugs down my shorts quickly unbuttoning his jeans and pressing

my future, I was too afraid to

dick was, but now my body instantly relaxes,

he's right, I'm so sensitive and emotional I can't even control my own body as I get dangerously close within a

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

to go but fuck, it's even

baby, you have

really all there

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

don't know

It's just

I know is Mom can never find out that the couch has joined the soon to be long list of desecrated

embarrassed as Easton pulls

bigger

"I got it."

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

he rubs

that...the only reason I have self control is fear of an

scenario,’ I say as he tugs my

chases you with one of his old shotguns that he probably

"Perfect."

them in the trash in the corner, taking one look at the wash-—rag and looking to me for

luck, he'll misfire and hit my dick, making your prophetic story actually come true.” I fall back on the

drops the towel and

again as he pulls me into his arms, kissing

can feel your

against mine, muscular,

snuggle closer as we sit with the reflection of the

you to know that I'm