You’re Mine by Penny Brooks

Chapter 158

 Easton

 "This place is so cool."

Harper glances around the restaurant, her eyes wide.

"I love all the dragons everywhere."

I took my girl to a Chinese restaurant that I used to always go to with my parents when I was a little kid.

Some obscure place that doesnt look like anything special from the outside, but once you enter, it's like walking into another world.

Giant mirrors hang on the black lacquer walls, reflecting the multiple red Chinese lanterns that hang from the ceilings.

There's a giant water feature when you first enter the restaurant, and you can hear the gentle tinkling of the water even from our table, which is on the other side of the building.

Even on a Saturday afternoon at three o'clock the place is packed.

Luckily we got right in before the current surge came.

"I think it's still Chinese New Year,’ I say as I glance around the room, looking for a familiar face to pop up.

So far, we're in the clear.

Harper catches me glancing around yet again and frowns.

"She's not going to show up."

"She still might.’ "Maybe she wouldn't be so obvious.” Harper looks out the nearby window.

"Maybe she's waiting for us in the parking lot."

Anger simmers in my blood, making my skin hot.

Since I found that fucking tracker yesterday I can't think about anything else.

Even though we shut Sadie down about confronting Aisha, I can't help but think we should've.

The bitch deserves it.

But Ryan was right.

Aisha would deny she had anything to do with that fucking tracker and that would've been it.

Case closed.

We have to catch her in the act.

It's the only way to prove she's behind it.

"I'm so full,” Harper practically groans, pushing her mostly empty plate away from her.

"It was good.” "Yeah it was."

broken off

we take the leftovers

"Easton.

Look."

a hand at the near bare dishes on the

much eaten it

nothing left to

"Yeah.

sigh I lean back in my chair, casually looking around the restaurant yet

"Should we go?"

you pay the

"Not yet."

sweeping the restaurant yet again and Harper actually

"What?"

always going to keep that

what up?

at her and she rolls her

always up for you,

“Easton, please.

of the restaurant.” She's blushing, which is

I love that I can

talking about you always on the search for Aisha.”

I see the look on

me

And she's right.

"I'm paranoid, okay?"

on the ends of my hair before I

me for who knows how

"It'll be fine.

tosses her napkin on her empty

"Let's go.

at the counter on the way

restaurant, my gaze dropping to her heart shaped ass that looks extra juicy in

should go back to my house after we're

with her a couple of nights ago, and I'm already craving

I always am.

have her naked and in my bed twenty—four—

"You ready?"

I pay for the

She nods and smiles.

"Let's go."

the sun shining so brightly I

gaze snagging on a passing car that vaguely resembles Aisha's, watching the vehicle carefully as it makes

It's not her.

from the beginning, but I couldn't help

her hand out of mine,

"What's wrong with you?"

"I'm sick of it.

Sick of this.

about that stupid tracker, it's all