Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 202

Chapter 202

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Lana

“You doing okay over there princess?” Briar called back. We were trudging through

the trees after hiding our bikes inside the treeline. Apparently Mr. Alphahole had

no sense of being snuck up on because he had nobody checking the perimeter.

Mazzie called it a stupid bullshit city wolf move. While Briar insisted she would

take her advantages where she could get them.

“I’m good.” I called but in the back of my mind I wondered why I had even come. I

wasn’t a fighter, in my little Alaskan town I was expected to be the alphas chosen.

A bride and mate, I was expected to salt fish, skin kills, and sleep with whomever

the alpha warranted we needed alliances with or friendships that they wanted

closer to family. I grew up with that culture, we didn’t have issues like these, true

mates were so rare that we didn’t even have stories about them. Natives that

weren’t shifters didn’t even practice the wife swap anymore; it was a non issue. I

just didn’t want to spend the rest of my life processing animals. Now here I was

wondering what I could even do to help.

I caught up with Brair, Mazzie just out of earshot.

“How am I supposed to help? I’m not a fighter, you both know it.” Briar hooked her

arm with mine forcing me to keep pace. She pulled her phone out. She had been

texting someone when we ditched the bikes. I didn’t know what she was up to. I

assumed it was Misty.

“You’re not going in Lan, take this,” she said, pressing the phone into my hand. Just

stay close enough if Misty calls. I get it, the rest you will understand soon, make

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sure we have the witnesses,” Briar said, pushing my hand that now held her phone

away. We had gotten another message from Creedon and while it caused Briar to

just, I don’t know, fall into this quiet calm. She had become a predator moving

towards its prey. If it were me…I wouldn’t cross her. At some point, karma had to

swoop in and destroy this asshole and …Briar right now was a force to be reckoned

with. She let me go, taking a few steps away from me. We could see the house

through the tangle of trees. Her hair mostly loose now from the ride and the trek

through the woods. A breeze blew against her, her eyes closing as it rushed past. I

took in the beauty of that moment as she stood like an avenging valkyrie, Carter’s

“Let’s get closer, I need to see he’s alive,” Briar’s voice was but a whisper. We both

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