I'll Just Date Myself

Table of Contents I’ll Just Date Myself Dedication Acknowledgments Other titles by Lani Lynn Vale Blurb Author’s Note Part I Prologue Prologue II Prologue III Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Part II Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Chapter 11 Chapter 12 Chapter 13 Chapter 14 Chapter 15 Chapter 16 Chapter 17 Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Chapter 20 Chapter 21 Chapter 22 Chapter 23 Chapter 24 Chapter 25 Epilogue KOBE & FOLSOM I’ll Just Date Myself By Lani Lynn Vale ™ Text copyright © 2023 Lani Lynn Vale ™ All Rights Reserved No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the author. The only exception is by a reviewer, who may quote short excerpts in a review. This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. To those that think they’re not good enough. To those that have done everything, yet you still are found lacking. This one is for you. You’re not lacking. You are good enough. And screw everyone else that thinks you’re not. Acknowledgments Golden Czermak—Photographer My Brother’s Editor & Ink It Out Editing—My editors Alyssa Garcia—Cover Artist & PA My mom—Thank you for reading this book eight million five hundred sixty-seven times. Kendra, Lisa, Laura, Brandi, Jen, Mindy, Barbara & Amanda—I don’t know what I would do without y’all. Thank you, my lovely betas, for loving my books as much as I do. Other titles by Lani Lynn Vale The Freebirds Boomtown Highway Don’t Care Another One Bites the Dust Last Day of My Life Texas Tornado I Don’t Dance The Heroes of The Dixie Wardens MC Lights To My Siren Halligan To My Axe Kevlar To My Vest Keys To My Cuffs Life To My Flight Charge To My Line Counter To My Intelligence Right To My Wrong Code 11- KPD SWAT Center Mass Double Tap Bang Switch Execution Style Charlie Foxtrot Kill Shot Coup De Grace The Uncertain Saints Whiskey Neat Jack & Coke Vodka On The Rocks Bad Apple Dirty Mother Rusty Nail The Kilgore Fire Series Shock Advised Flash Point Oxygen Deprived Controlled Burn Put Out I Like Big Dragons Series I Like Big Dragons and I Cannot Lie Dragons Need Love, Too Oh, My Dragon The Dixie Warden Rejects Beard Mode Fear the Beard Son of a Beard I’m Only Here for the Beard The Beard Made Me Do It Beard Up For the Love of Beard Law & Beard There’s No Crying in Baseball Pitch Please Quit Your Pitchin’ Listen, Pitch The Hail Raisers Hail No Go to Hail Burn in Hail What the Hail The Hail You Say Hail Mary The Simple Man Series Kinda Don’t Care Maybe Don’t Wanna Get You Some Ain’t Doin’ It Too Bad So Sad Bear Bottom Guardians MC Mess Me Up Talkin’ Trash How About No My Bad One Chance, Fancy It Happens Keep It Classy Snitches Get Stitches F-Bomb The Southern Gentleman Series Hissy Fit Lord Have Mercy KPD Motorcycle Patrol Hide Your Crazy It Wasn’t Me I’d Rather Not Make Me Sinners are Winners If You Say So SWAT 2.0 Just Kidding Fries Before Guys Maybe Swearing Will Help Ask Me If I Care May Contain Wine Blurb Normally when you say, “I have a stalker,” you think bad thoughts. That wasn’t the kind of stalker Folsom was when it came to Kobe Sano. Folsom liked to call herself a “guardian angel in disguise.” The first time he catches her attention, he’s been assigned to hunt her down and throw away the key. All she did was steal someone else’s child. Well, embryo, that is. What Kobe doesn’t know, though, is the man that hired him is up to no good, and she has no other choice but to run without looking back. From that moment on, she spends the rest of her spare time running away from him while also digging into every nook and cranny of his personal life, finding every weakness he has and utilizing it any way she needs to keep herself one step ahead of him. Only one day, when she goes to do her usual snooping, she finds out that not only is her favorite person in trouble, but he’s also in need of her help. Too bad it takes her years to find that help. Her next step is to break him out of the pokey prison-break style. If she knew he’d go without question, she very well might have. • • • It didn’t take a genius to know when someone was stalking you. The signs were all there, and they eventually pointed right at Folsom. When he figures it out, he plans to confront her and maybe address the silent sexual tension that’s been brewing between them for the last few years. However, right when he’s ready to admit to himself that she might be the one—daughter who intimidates the hell out of him or not—she up and disappears for a year. In that year, he spends