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."

sniff and

sucked them so hard the other day I was afraid

His smile is devastating.

you've been like a wild animal

holds up

"In fact..."

heart pounds so

lips meet in a

without this man? These kisses? He's

us, of this, that one day

our legs tangle with

and I want this to

he says between kisses.

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

and

with

my dad's messing with your erection, that's new,’ I

quickly unbuttoning his jeans and pressing

saw this in my future, I was too afraid to hope for it as he guides himself between my

big his dick was, but now my body instantly relaxes, basically sucking him in and saying

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

the stairway like

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

have a magic

there

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

know what I

It's

can never find out that the couch has joined

embarrassed as

made a mess, like a way bigger mess than we've ever made

"I got it."

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

groan as he rubs me

growls, "Gonna have to not do that...the only reason I have self control is

as he tugs my shorts back up and

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

"Perfect."

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

he'll misfire and hit my dick, making your prophetic story actually come

drops the towel and walks

me into his arms, kissing me

feel

body is hot against mine, muscular, firm,

as we sit with the reflection of the

know that I'm here, by your side, no matter