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."

of broken off wonton and pop

take the leftovers home for

"Easton.

Look."

waves a hand at the near bare dishes on

much eaten

nothing left to

"Yeah.

sigh I lean back in my chair, casually

"Should we go?"

you pay

"Not yet."

sweeping the restaurant yet again

"What?"

to keep

up? My

at her and she

always up

“Easton, please.

the restaurant.” She's blushing, which is

all the filthy things we've done together, I love that I can

the search for Aisha.” "I'm not always looking for

when I see the look

clearly calling me out on my

And she's right.

"I'm paranoid, okay?"

of my head, tugging on

knowing she's followed me for who knows how long fucking makes me want to lose

"It'll be fine.

her napkin on her empty

"Let's go.

the bill at the counter

dropping to her heart shaped ass that looks extra

house after

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

I always am.

naked and in my bed twenty—four— seven and it

"You ready?"

I pay for

She nods and smiles.

"Let's go."

into the parking lot, the sun shining so brightly

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

It's not her.

it wasn't her from the beginning, but I couldn't help

out of mine,

"What's wrong with you?"

"I'm sick of it.

Sick of this.

stupid tracker, it's all you can