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

"Do not."

sniff and look

you sucked them so hard the other day I was afraid you

His smile is devastating.

you've been like a wild animal in bed, not that

holds up

"In fact..."

in, my heart pounds so hard it almost makes my

meet in

man? These kisses? He's the addiction your

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

answers that question as our legs tangle with

you and I

he says between kisses.

stop thinking about your dad coming down the

groans and

with my

with your erection,

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

my future, I was too afraid to hope for it

was, but now my body instantly relaxes,

I can't even control my own body as I get dangerously close

stairway

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

you have

there is to

the pressure shift just enough for his angle to hit

know what

It's

couch has joined the soon to be long

embarrassed as Easton pulls

a way bigger mess than we've

"I got it."

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

he rubs

not do that...the only reason I have self control

he tugs my shorts back up and wipes down my

one of his old shotguns that he probably doesn't even know

"Perfect."

towels, tossing them in the trash in the corner, taking one look

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

towel and walks

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

can feel your

against mine,

with the reflection

I'm here, by your side, no matter