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

"Do not."

sniff and look

day I was afraid you were

His smile is devastating.

a wild animal in bed, not that I'm

up

"In fact..."

my heart pounds so hard it almost makes

lips meet in a

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

that one day we really will make

that question as our legs tangle with

you and I

he says between kisses.

stop thinking about

and

with

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

my shorts quickly unbuttoning his

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

to brace for how big his dick was, but now my body instantly relaxes, basically sucking him

I can't even control my

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

to warn you about how fast I was going to go but fuck, it's even

have a magic

really all there

just enough for his angle to hit the perfect little magical

don't know what

if It's

out that the couch has joined the soon to be long list of desecrated items in

embarrassed as

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

"I got it."

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

groan as he rubs

do that...the only reason I have self

as he tugs my shorts back up and wipes down

of his old shotguns that he probably doesn't even

"Perfect."

them in the trash in the corner, taking one

prophetic story actually come true.” I fall back on

towel

laugh again as he pulls me into his

can feel

hot against mine,

the reflection of

just want you to know that I'm here,