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..."

whispers in my ear,

"Do not."

sniff and

sucked them so hard the other day

His smile is devastating.

animal in bed, not

holds up

"In fact..."

pounds so hard it almost makes my chest

in a hungry

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

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

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

love 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 one of the steak

groans and

messing with

with your erection, that's new,’ I

quickly unbuttoning his jeans and pressing me back against

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

but now my body instantly relaxes, basically sucking him in

even control my own body as I get dangerously close

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

warn you about how fast I was going to go but fuck,

you have a

all there

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

don't know

It's

couch has joined the soon to

embarrassed as

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

"I got it."

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

he

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

tugs my shorts back up and wipes

his old shotguns that he probably

"Perfect."

the trash in the corner, taking one

misfire and hit my dick, making your prophetic story

drops the towel and walks

funny?” “Hilarious.” I laugh again as he pulls me into his

can feel your stress,

body is hot against mine,

with the reflection of the documentary on

just want you to know that I'm here, by your side, no matter