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, "So

"Do not."

and

so hard the other day I was afraid you were going to bite

His smile is devastating.

a wild animal in

up

"In fact..."

in, my heart pounds so hard it

lips meet in

without this man? These kisses? He's the

thinking he's going to get tired of us, of this, that one day we really will make it through the end of

tangle with each other and the blankets

love you and I

he says between kisses.

with the butcher knife, I can't stop thinking about your dad

groans and kisses

with

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

quickly unbuttoning

admit I dreamt about it but never saw this in my future, I was too afraid to hope for it as he guides

for how big his dick was, but now my body instantly relaxes, basically sucking him in and saying a small prayer that he'll

sensitive and emotional I can't even control

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

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

you have a magic

all there

the pressure shift just enough for his angle to

don't know what I

It's just

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

almost embarrassed as Easton

a mess, like a way bigger

"I got it."

with an

as he rubs

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

as he tugs my shorts back up

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

"Perfect."

in the trash in the corner, taking one look at the wash-—rag and looking to me for

luck, he'll misfire and hit my dick, making your prophetic story actually come true.” I fall back on

the towel

laugh again as he pulls me into his arms, kissing me on the top of

feel

body is hot against

closer as we sit with the reflection of the documentary on

to know that I'm here, by your side,