Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 90

Chapter 90

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We parted, and Carter brushed the hair from my face. He was looking at me in a way that

seemed to delve into my soul. It was too much to bear, to admit to feeling what that look

meant, so I pulled him into another kiss. He then washed the cum from my back and hair and

wrapped me in a towel. I took another from the cabinet for my hair and walked him to Jake’s

room to find him something clean to wear. I found some sweats and a t–shirt, which he took,

and he followed me into my room, where my head disappeared into the closet. I found shorts

and a tank with wide arm holes. When I turned around, he was staring at me, clothes still in

his hand.

“What?” I asked, and the look on his face at being caught, stilled my heart, a boyish grin, a

little sheepish at being found staring.

“Just admiring,” he admitted, as I crossed the room and dug a sports bra and underwear out of

my drawer.

“If you don’t hurry up, we are both going to be late,” I reminded him, and he finally tossed the

pants on the bed and began pulling on the shirt. I dropped my towel tossing it with the other

and began getting dressed myself, his eyes on me as he continued to watch me. I ignored them

as best I could. I liked Carter, wanted him, but I also knew I wasn’t ready, there was so much

on my emotional plate that I had yet to unpack. I felt like I didn’t even know who I was

anymore, or where I came from. I was struggling with the need to reinvent myself, to fit in,

and the need to be who I once was; then add in the trauma and the vague secrets I felt

nobody was telling me. I trusted Carter with my safety and my mental wellbeing; ok, this new

chapter of exploration, too. However, I wasn’t blind. Divide was one of those weird hole in the

wall tourist towns where they wanted the tourist money, but they didn’t want any outsiders to

feel at home, and here I was living among them.

An hour later, I pulled into the shop parking lot, trying to evade the looks of the guys. I felt

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paranoid, like everyone knew what I had been up to this morning, and I couldn’t put a finger on why. I had shut myself in the office, after leaving more muffins on the break table, and was

rethinking all my escapades of the morning when Byron walked in.

“Are you doing the services today?”

“Yeah,” I answered, and he huffed in a breath. He just nodded and walked out. Why did I feel

so exposed? I pushed through the morning, tuning the guys out, unless needed, and focused

on the jobs I needed to do. I pulled three extra bikes in and was an hour overdue to leave

when I was about to start on the last one. The sound of a bike approaching got my attention

as the nut loosened from the tank and oil drained into the pan. Looking up, it was Carter. I

had poured myself into work, still contemplating whether I should have allowed myself the

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