Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 120

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Alley was six and was her mama’s mini, both physically and with just as much attitude to

match her mother at that age. Kade was three and I just pretended to know half of what he

was saying. We sat at the dining table I rarely used with Meri, the youngest on her lap as she

fed her from her own plate. She seemed like a natural with kids and I found my mind. wandering to things I shouldn’t be considering yet. Thats when Alley tugged on my shirt and I

snapped out of my daze.

“Does Briar live here?”

“Shes staying here for right now,”

“Why is she your girlfriend?”

I glanced at Briar and she tried to tuck her suppressed smile behind her hand holding the fork.

“Thats a very complicated answer, the truth is I wish she was but I’m to afraid to ask her.”

Alley looked at Briar. “Do you want to be Carter’s girlfriend? He needs one, Mama says its

about time he settled down.”

Briar coughed clearing her throat. She closed her eyes and bit her lip trying to find the right words to explain things to a six year old with out alluring to the devastating facts.

“I would love to be Carter’s girlfriend but I’m dealing with some stuff right now and it’s not

fair for me to get into a relationship right now.”

“What kinda stuff?” I went to hush Alley and Briar shook her head at me.

“I lost my mama and my uncle not that long ago, I had a boyfriend but he wasn’t kind to me

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so I have a lot of feelings I don’t know what to do with it. Trying to wrap my mind around

new feelings is like writing cursive without never learning how. But we are really great friends

right now and I care about him a lot.” She assured Alley.

“I don’t know how to write cursive,” Alley said.

“Some letters are harder then others, just like some feelings are harder then others, it take

time to learn what they look like and how to connect them when you write. You have to learn

when to separate the letters and when to link them and what the capitols look like because

that letter no longer looks like what your used to. Just like I’m not sure which feelings I

should be feeling anymore. If I want to be Carter’s girlfriend I have to learn what my feelings

mean now and I’m just not there yet, though I like him very much.” Alley nodded the

explanation partially going over her head but the simple breakdown made sense to me. That

told me a lot about Briar and where here head was at.

Kade pointed to the garlic bread and I gave him another slice. I was mulling over those

thoughts when Meri dove into Briars plate and started shovling handfuls of diced up spaghetti

into her mouth. I couldn’t blame the kid it was good.

Briar laughed and relinquished her plate to the toddler. I got up and made her another plate

and set it before her handing her the fork. She took it but still eyed the toddler in her lap

shovling food into her mouth as she ate. Kade and Meri were making an absolute mess and I

chuckled to myself.

Briar eyed the two youngest. “How about after dinner we do baths and then a movie?”

“Sounds good to me.” I let her know and I did the dishes and whipped down the counter while

Alley worked at a puzzle and Kade chased tucker who amused himself with staying just out of

the toddler’s reach. She brought out a freshly changed Meri and laid her on a blanket on the

floor before scooping up Kade and returning him in his PJs not long after. Once I had the

kitchen and diningroom back to rights Briar had Alley on the couch braiding her hair. I went

and found the popcorn and dug out some juice boxes when Briar came in and warmed some

milk and put it in Meri’s bottle. She smiled at me as I grabbed us each a beer and we settled

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with the kids on the couch and she set up a dragon training kids movie on the tv. The kids

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