Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 91

Chapter 91

Carter

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When I got to the office, I was in my own world when Mazzie walked up to me as I made a cup

of coffee before heading to my office.

“Someone seems happy this morning,” she sniffed. “Ahh, so Briar is finally succumbing to your

boyish charms,” she teased. I rolled my eyes and turned to my office; she followed, shutting

the door.

“Why are you so invested in Briar and me?” I asked, plopping down in my chair. Mazzie folded

her arms and leaned against the door. I was genuinely curious what my best friend thought.

“Look, Carter, I’ve known you all my life, you’re a good guy; you deserve to be happy. The way

you look at Briar, for someone who knows you, it’s not hard to see. You say she’s dealing with

some trauma, and I know a little about that. What’s holding you back besides whatever this

shit bag put her through?”

“The thing is, Maz, I don’t know everything. The state of her, a week after she escaped,

though, only a monster could do something like that, and unfortunately, he’s a rich monster,

and I’m surprised he hasn’t shown up yet to claim her. I suspect, though, she is only half wolf

and doesn’t have a clue. She was given a mate, and he did that to her when she rejected him.

Briar, though, she hides it well from those who can’t sense it; she lives each day with the

lifeforce being drained from her by a one–sided bond. If I weren’t around to ensure she stayed

strong, she’d be dead.”

“What do you mean?”

“I know you saw it that night in her eyes, Mazzie, her wolf is rising slowly; it rouses, then

vanishes. She’s lived among humans her entire life, and she doesn’t know what a pack is or

that she unknowingly rejected her mate. After what she’s been through, all of this could be

what breaks her. I’ve got her holding on right now. I can’t let her take a step back. He gave me

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six months to get her wolf to the surface and prove she can hack it in the pack.” Mazzie

whistled.

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“I’ve been waiting for her to tell me the rest, for her to come to a point I can tell her more.

The thing is, she doesn’t even know who her father is. She was told Jake was her uncle, that

her dad had died. We all know there’s no truth to that. Jake never told a soul about her, but he

had planned to bring her here. He saw it, too. I’ve seen it a few times myself, but I need to

know what I’m dealing with before I start opening new cans of worms I can’t close. I don’t

have the time to wait forever. She needs to feel the pack, or she’s never going to recognize the

other part of herself, or the bond, and I’d rather she choose it before I tell her.

“What are you talking about, Carter? You’re not making sense.”

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