Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 33

Chapter 33

Chapter 26

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When I heard the shower turn off, I started up the stove. I still felt the simmering rage that bristled under my skin, maybe a cold shower would do me good. There was so much I didn’t

know, and right now I didn’t even care. I felt her before she came around the corner barefoot

and in a cropped tee that exposed the line of her hip bone to just above her belly button and a

black skirt with clips and chains that hung from it. Damn! I knew she had a hot body but

seeing so much of her soft tanned skin made me salivate. Her damp blonde hair fell around

her shoulders. Goddess was she beautiful. Even with the bruising and swelling, I found myself

imagining how she looked without it.

Rosie stood beside her bone in mouth and I caught myself wondering how things could be as

she strode up to the kitchen island. I inhaled, then inwardly grumbled, her musky sweetness

gone. However, she now smelled less of the sour scent her Alpha had left behind, and more

like me from the soap and shampoo. That made me just a little smug. I watched her take a

seat at the island out of the corner of my eye. Tucker jumped up and I watched her

instinctively collect him to her chest. I shook the dirty thoughts off, and forced my mind back

to flipping the steaks. Tucker was a great judge of character, so it relaxed my mind a bit.

Maybe Jake had a few secrets nobody knew about. Briar was hiding from her demons, but that

didn’t make her one. How did I explain that to him though? How did I explain the one sided

connection that sometimes felt like two? He didn’t like outsiders, yet we profited on them every day. 2

Tucker was like jello in her arms as I began searing the steaks. That cat only liked me and

Rosie since Jake left us. The way Rosie watched her had led me to the conclusion that I wasn’t

entirely delusional, and there went Tucker just proving the point further. My phone chirped

but I again ignored it as I pulled some baked potatoes out of the oven. I grabbed the cheese

and sour cream out of the fridge and threw some bacon in a frying pan. I felt her eyes on me

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