Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 177

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I sighed and nodded stepping inside. I dragged out leftover boxes of pizza. I had gone to town

earlier and talked to the manager of the pizza place about updating her website, she now

wanted to hire me to fix that and market the brand so the tourists would see the place as a

hot spot like the locals did. So I guess I was going to use my schooling for more than just

Jake’s shop. I had been working on revamping the shop’s site to keep my mind off things. So I

grabbed pizza for lunch and dinner while I was there.

I turned on the oven and arranged some slices on a rack, however Lana took a box and

wandered into the living room. Cold pizza it was, not like it mattered. I followed her after

flipping the stove off and throwing the slices back into the box. I grabbed a bottle of ranch

before I followed her. I plopped down on the couch next to her.

“Figure out what tattoo you want yet?”

“No, I’ll find out once I get there.”

Lana ate an entire cold pie by herself while I only forced down a few slices before I couldn’t

bear the nausea anymore. She watched me with concern as I stood and walked what was left

back to the kitchen. She followed me, crushing her box and putting it in the trash while I

shoved mine in the fridge and shut the door. I pressed my forehead against the cool surface of

the fridge. I was so tired of this, needing someone I wanted to trust so badly, however

something in me said I had already forgiven him, but the pain still lingered like a festering rot

in my heart. I felt Lana’s eyes on me.

“Will this feeling ever stop?”

“What do you feel, Briar?” she asked, her voice pointed and serious.

“Creedon shredded my pride and handed me shame and brokenness that crippled me. I didn’t

understand why in the depths of my dreams, he haunted me as something I desired, and

something that horrified me to the point I wondered if life was worth even trying to live. He

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killed everything in me that wanted to live…Then came Carter, and slowly I resurfaced, not as

I was but who I am now. I’m scared, Lana. This feeling is like a rotting hole inside me, and it

will devour me if I surrender to it, or I could lay my heart at Carter’s feet, but is that even fair

to him? To make him fix me all over again? If I die, will that set him free?”

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