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,

"Do not."

and

so hard the other day I was

His smile is devastating.

animal in bed, not that I'm

holds up his

"In fact..."

heart pounds so hard it almost makes my chest

in a

I ever survive without this man? These kisses? He's

of this, that one day we really will

that question as our legs tangle with each other

I

he says between kisses.

thinking about your dad

groans and kisses

with my

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

tugs down my shorts quickly unbuttoning his jeans and pressing me back against my childhood leather

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

for how big his dick was, but now my body instantly relaxes, basically

I'm so sensitive and emotional I can't even control my own body as I get

and looks up at the stairway like

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

you have a magic

there is to

the pressure shift just enough for his angle

know what

if It's just

can never find out that the couch has joined the soon to be long list of desecrated items

embarrassed as Easton pulls

made a mess, like a way bigger

"I got it."

me again and returns from the downstairs wet bar with an array of

groan as he rubs

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

tugs my shorts back up

one of his old shotguns that

"Perfect."

trash

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

towel and

is that funny?” “Hilarious.” I laugh again as he pulls me

can feel your stress,

hot against mine, muscular, firm, and

the reflection of

that I'm here, by your side, no