Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 153

Chapter 153

Carter

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I was running on the treadmill when Mazzie joined me on the one next to me. The one Briar

should have been running on. I turned the music up on my phone letting the heavy metal

penetrate me down to my soul. Everything was wrong in the world today and I had to walk

into the office like I was relieved she was gone, as if she was nothing to me. I punched at the

controls not liking that train of thought and the motor whirled as the platform beneath my

feet rose to an incline. I know I needed to give her some time before I tried to push her to

hear me out. One thing was for sure…I wasn’t going to let her go, failure was not an option.

The motor whirled and the incline shifted on the treadmill. Mazzie kept a leisurely pace

beside me but side eyed me.

“Your gonna kill yourself before you have a chance to make it right Carter,” she warned in my

mind.

“You don’t have to walk into the office today and pretend the woman you can’t live without

means nothing to you, that you aren’t shredded apart from the inside out because you fucked

it all to shit. I fucked up Mazzie, I own that guilt but right now my wolf is clawing me from

the inside, if I dont wear him down I’m likely to kill somebody today. So excuse me while I try

to manage this.” I snarled and blocked her, so she didn’t try to inhibit my reckless way of

controlling the savage beast within me. The wolf had never been like this before. Inconsolable,

angry; a monster ready to tear the world apart as he longed for the other half of his soul to be

returned to his side. We will get her back. I promised but my words meant nothing to him if I

didn’t act on them. Unfortunately for both of us there was nothing to be done at the moment.

This would have to happen on her terms. If I pushed her, I would really lose her. The claws

stopped shredding at me. I huffed out a breath as my feet continued to move. The wolf finally

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