Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 246

Chapter 246

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My grandmother moved easily through the trees, I watched her avoid a limb here

and a root there. The weather here was mild for early January.

“How do you see?” I asked her, confused.

“I have my ways, the mind’s eye sees more clearly than eyes themselves.” she said,

hooking her free arm in mine. I didn’t know what to make of that, so I let it go.

“Now tell me, child, everything. My daughters did not visit me much since you were

born. I know they are both dead, but I want to know how they lived and died. And I

want to know all about you. So I told her about them as much as I could, while we

moved through the trees. I gave her the short version. Explaining that Alice had

been taken and killed by my father’s enemies and that Evie had taken on her

identity to raise me only to die of cancer.

She became quiet as she absorbed it all until a smaller raven cawed as it flew overhead. My grandmother was disturbed from her contemplative thoughts as I let her sit with the information. We had paused by a stunning waterfall. I watched the

water, absorbed in its beauty. The place seemed to hum beneath my feet. The bird

flapped and landed on a tree branch cawing again.

“What’s your name?” I asked, already knowing from Misty’s information but wanting to try to get her to talk about herself and avoid having to tell her about

1. me.

“Hazel, McBride if you assume I’m legally married to Colten. Smith if I go by the

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name of the woman who raised me.

“Your parents?”

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“Never had none, the granny woman who found me on her doorstep took me in. Her

name was Hattie Smith. I wasn’t born into this world by typical means. Her milky

eyes stared at the pool at the bottom of the waterfall before she spoke again. “Alice

and Evie were not entirely human. While Alice took after me, though she embraced

it, she wanted more than this life. She was spirited and young, wanting to see the

world and it swallowed her,” she said with sadness. Evie on the other hand took

after Colton, and she hated it. Denounced it with every bit of fire she could muster

in her heart. Her and her father were just too much alike to ever understand each

other. Despite it all, Alice and her were inseparable. They were special, they

understood each other on a soul level. I’m not surprised she walked away from her

identity in order to take your mother’s place. They would have done anything for

one another.

“What do you mean my mom was like you and Evie is like Colton?”

“There are more things than just wolves in this world, child. I can sense a spark of

your mother deep inside you. However, the shifter genes in your veins is stronger,

only because that is the side you now know to pay attention to.” What I am, cannot

be placed in a neat category that’s easy to understand. I hold power in this realm

and my gifts allow me to do the job I promised and was created to do. Many think

those like me are witches, but that isn’t what we are. The very few like me are born

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