Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 159

I just nodded like a scolded child. She giggled. “My best friend is a badass!” I shook my head

as we walked back into the house.

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Lana helped me unwrap my hands and sent me into the shower. The water stung my hands. but I ignored it as I washed my hair and body. Thoughts of the first time Carter and I had shared this shower flitted through my memory I rinsed off and turned the water off. When I

came out I found Lana sprawled on my bed with a bottle of peroxide and some gauze next to

her. I pulled my towel out of my hair and sat beside her laying the towel over my lap. She sat up and grabbed the bottle and I braced for the sting. I hissed anyway as the abrasions bubbled up and fizzed. She blotted my hands with the towel and spread some ointment on them before

wrapping them up in gauze.

When she finished she looked at me. “Are you going to be ok tonight? Do you want me to

stay?”

As nice as it would be to have her here I shook my head no. “Thank you but I’ll be ok, I have

Ole Betty and Beck’s knife.

“If anything goes down, I know you don’t want to hear this but call Carter, he’s closest to

you,” Lana instructed.

“I’m not sure that I’m even on his radar anymore,” I said as I shook my head. Everything that

Clyde had said rushed back to me.

Lana glanced at Ole Betty. “If he gave you that–she said pointing at the shotgun–he still

cares, that was the gun his grandfather kept in the house for his grandmother, for protection,

he wouldn’t part with it lightly.” She filled me in and I sighed.

I didn’t know what to make of that. My chest ached with the sentiment of it. I glanced at Lana

who just opened her arms to hug me. The slighter woman wrapped me in a hug.

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“I understand why you feel the way you feel, just know Mazzie and I are here for you.” She

said, squeezing me tightly. I nodded. “Now how early do I need to be here to keep you from

running in the woods alone?” she groaned.

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I chuckled. “Seven, I’m working from home 6 days a week now as long as the new hire can pull

his weight. I just have to stop in tomorrow and get him in the system.”

“Thank fuck!” Lana exclaimed. “I wasn’t sure how I was going to survive getting up at 4 am to

be here on time.”

“I told you that you didn’t have too.”

She shook her head. “I would have suffered if it meant knowing you were safe. You’re the only

person here that I feel is my friend, not because of anyone else. Yeah you came around with

Carter, but I can be myself with you and you don’t give a rats ass how weird I am. You don’t

look down on me because of what I went through. You take my crazy in stride.”

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of a handful of cigarettes. I went out on the front porch leaning the shot gun beside me as I

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