Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 37

Chapter 37

He was too sweet, and too goddamn hot, for my own good. My brain told me that was a

warning flag, but the rest of me said that made him a green flag. I was over complicating

things. He was just kind and worried about my person. It meant nothing.

I was scratching Rosie’s chest softly with my fingernails when he came back in a pair of low

slung sweats. Tucker curled up in a wedge of the couch between Rosie and me, his paws

kneading into the dog, who paid no nevermind. Carter grabbed a broom and a mop and went

to work.

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“I’m sorry, about that,” I let him know. I didn’t have the energy to hold my head up, let alone,

clean the mess I made. Carter just shook his head.

“Honestly, I don’t care. I imagine that was a shock,” he said, turning his back to me, but I

didn’t miss the tremble of his hands.

“He’s not going to stop till he hunts me down.” I pointed out.

Carter paused in his sweeping.

“Then this is the safest place to be.”

“Why’s that?”

He filled the dustpan, “You are Jake’s people, that makes you mine”-his eyes bored into mine,

down to my very soul, as he crouched looking over his shoulder- “I protect my own.” His

words were concise and deliberate, and yet I couldn’t bring myself to give him the same

warning I had given Beck.

Beck’s vow had come from some failure in his past. Some wrong he was hell-bent on making

right. Carter’s, on the other hand, was an icy promise that foreboded absolute jurisdiction on

his meaning. Who was this guy? Promising a stranger so much, and why did I believe him?

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Carter disappeared with the dustpan and came back with 2 beers and 2 glasses of scotch.

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“I think you are staying here tonight, sweetheart.” I just nodded, not having the energy to

argue, not to mention, not wanting to be alone. I accepted the glass from him without

hesitation. I downed it, a stupid move from a woman recovering from rape and brutality.

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