Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 147

Chapter 147

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I watched Briar take off with Rosie chasing after her. My heart felt like it had shattered, my

wolf howled in my head pining and my soul felt like it was dying. She may not feel the bond,

but I realized what I had caused was worse than the torment I was going through now. I had

broken the trust of a woman who had used me as a pillar to stitch herself back together. That pillar had literally disintegrated within the last hour and she was scrambling to hold herself together, along with to bond pulling from Creedon, the tether she still miraculously held to me so thin and fragile. I had felt the strength of it waver through it all. I followed that thin

thread as I flopped onto my couch. Total and utter devastation was what greeted me and it

gutted me. This was all my fault. I poured from the bottle still on the table into both glasses

and took mine. I stared at her glass, accepting my fault in all of this. I had downed a few when

I got a text from Mazzie.

Mazzie: What the fuck Carter? Boss says you’re off her case… what the fucked happened.

Carter: I’ve literally fucked everything.

My phone rang and I let it ring for a while before I answered. I didn’t want to admit to it all.

My shame was a weight and a burn on everything I was.

“She’s gone.” I choked out.

“What do you mean Carter?”

“I fucked up the best thing that could have ever happened to me Maz,” my choked voice

replied before I let out a sob.

“What the fuck did you do!” Lana’s voice came close to the phone and the click of Mazzie

putting the phone on speaker sounded in my ears.

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“I was going to tell her everything but he called us in today. I was too late. She thinks

everything was a ploy.

“For fucks sake Carter,” Mazzie sighed as Lana’s expletives cursed me in the background.

“Where the hell is she!” Lana yelled as she took over the phone.

“Jake’s” I let her know. The two women hissed at each other in whispers I didn’t bother to

attempt to decipher as I poured the end of the bottle into my glass. I lost myself in the full one still sitting on the table, forgetting I was on the phone. Mazzie said something, Lana

argued and Mazzie came back on the line.

“I’ll be there soon, I’m dropping Lana to check on Briar on my way to you.” I closed my eyes.

“Thank fuck for Lana,” I whispered cheering the air with my glass.

“You can go fuck yourself,” I heard Lana spat in the background.

“What am I chopped liver?” Mazzie asked.

“No, I just don’t deserve you.”

Mazzie sighed. “We’re coming,” she insisted. Lana wouldn’t be coming here, she was going to

be with Briar and I was so thankful for that, she would understand her in ways nobody else

could. I wandered into the kitchen for another bottle and a glass for Mazzie, cuz nobody was

going to touch Briar’s glass. That would stay there until I could convince her to come home.

An hour later and I heard Mazzie’s car pulling up. She didn’t bother knocking and just strode

through the door. She took me in and shook her head.

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“You’ve made a right mess of it all,” was all she said as she glanced around before she plopped

down beside me.

I nodded.

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