Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 193

Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate

Chapter 193

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Carter was walking up with a shotgun on his shoulder and an old woman dressed in worn

jeans and a grey cowlneck sweater. Mazzie stood up straight on alert. I peeked out the window

as he approached.

“Brair, there’s someone I want you to meet,” Carter said as Mazzie looked up at him

questioningly. I noticed, however, she didn’t move from the door. “This is Mrs. O’Connor. I

need to prove you aren’t a ghost. Let her out, Mazzie,” he said, motioning to the door.

“You sure about this?” Mazzie questioned.

“Yeah,” he answered. Mazzie took a step aside, and I opened the door and slid out.

“Nellie, meet Adelaide Briar Anderson, Alice’s daughter and my mate.” I glanced from him to

the old woman who stared at me like seeing a ghost.

“It’s a pleasure to meet you,” I told the woman who snapped out of her dumbfounded stare.

“You look so much like your mother,” Nellie said in awe. “You survived, and you have finally

come home,” the old woman stammered.

“I won’t say it’s been easy, but yes,” I let her know, and the next second she rushed me as

Mazzie went to step between us, but the old lady got there first, wrapping her arms around

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“Child, you have no idea how many nights I stayed up worrying over you, after what happened

to your mother. I never thought you would come home after Jake died. After his own brother

marked him for dead, she stepped back, gripping my elbows as she took me in. How did she

know so much? She had been just down the road this entire time.

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“You, you knew my mother?” I asked, shocked.

“Yes, when she and her sister were here that summer, they spent a lot of time here when Jake

and Clyde were busy. If they weren’t at Martha’s, they were here if they weren’t with the

men,” she said.

“W…will you tell me about her?” I asked desperately.

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“Of course, come, child,” she said, glancing at Carter, then Mazzie. “I guess they can come too,

the kettle is on. We can have tea.”

“Her house had hanging herbs all over the kitchen, jars of canned goods stacked and labeled

on every available shelf, knick–knacks adorned the shelves, and cats ran out of the living room

as we passed to hide.

“Your mama and your aunt were like night and day, one open and brimming with light and joy,

and the other colder and less willing to accept people into their lives, that is, until Jake

weasled his way into her heart. Your father, even though he was raised by his grandfather.

Henry took his sire out, he was Martha’s first mate,” she said, pulling cups out of the

cupboards and dropping some herbs into the bottom of them. “I had hoped that Clyde would

resemble his grandfather in how he handled the pack. However, he bore too much pride and

jealousy, he resented anything he regarded as less than him, but he was willing to take

anything he could get from anyone in the process if it gained him anything, even if that

meant manipulating a woman so that in his eyes, he could appear more like your uncle,” she

said pulling the teapot off as it whistled.

“Alice and Evie were inseparable. He wanted what Jake had, wanted to be loved as Jake was,

and he thought by tricking Alice into loving him, people might see him differently. The thing

was, he actually fell in love with her. But his love was a cruelty. She found out she was

that; she wanted to take you back home. Clyde wanted to own her, break her spirit so that she

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