Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 26

Chapter 26

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Carter paid the tab and when I tried to put a tip on the table, he snatched it and stuffed it

back into my hand before he dragged me out of there, no doubt before his sister could corner

him.

“Come on, let’s go to the grocery store.”

“I won’t have power for a few days,” I said.

“Well, I need some things and you can keep yours at my place ‘til your power is on,” he said

hopefully.

“You don’t have to do that. I’ll survive on canned stuff for a while. I’ve been doing just fine,” I

pointed out. His eagerness to help me was daunting, I was confused. He made a noise in his

throat in disagreement. I wanted to retort, my whole being was against being another man’s

bitch.

“I have to get some stuff, anyway. I live just up the road, really, we are almost neighbors,” he tried to relax my fears. I trusted nothing, everything felt like controlling behaviors, and I just wanted to bolt, but these were Uncle Jake’s people, and I wanted to get to know whatever world my father grew up in before Creedon inevitably finds me; though, I prayed this would

truly be my sanctuary. I pulled my hood up and nodded, still bristling.

I went to reach for a cart and he grabbed it before I could. I huffed but followed him, crossing my arms across my chest. I felt exposed in the small grocery store, my eyes darting around

looking for necessities. A bag of apples, oatmeal, rice, beans in a can.

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She couldn’t survive on what she was tossing in the cart, so I doubled up on bacon, eggs,

sausages of all kinds, and meat. One way or another, I’d make sure she was fed properly. She

wouldn’t like it, but she needed it. She tossed in the cheapest processed bread she could find.

1 shook my head and bee–lined for the bakery tossing in a loaf of sourdough, and one of rye,

into the cart. This woman was going to make me entice her to eat properly. I didn’t know how

I was going to do it, but it was going to happen. When we got out of the food section, I

grabbed charcoal and lighter fluid. She wasn’t paying attention, good.

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