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 in my

"Do not."

sniff and look

sucked them so hard the other day I was afraid you

His smile is devastating.

been like a wild animal in bed, not

up his

"In fact..."

leans in, my heart pounds so hard it almost makes

in

without this man? These kisses? He's the addiction your

this, that one day we

question as our legs tangle with each

you and I want

he says between kisses.

stop thinking about your dad coming

groans and

messing with

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

tugs down my shorts quickly unbuttoning his jeans and pressing me

never saw this in my future, I was

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

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

grips my hips and looks up at the stairway like he's

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

baby, you have a

really all there

shift just enough for his angle to

don't know what

It's just

find out that the couch has

almost embarrassed as Easton

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

"I got it."

wet bar with an

as he

to not do that...the only reason I have

as he tugs my shorts back up and wipes

old shotguns that he probably doesn't even know how to

"Perfect."

used paper towels, tossing them in the trash in

making your prophetic story

drops the towel

pulls me into his arms, kissing me on

can feel your

body is hot against

sit with the

that I'm here,