Her CEO Stalker and Her Second Chance Mate (Adelaide) novel Chapter 248

Chapter 248

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“They are flying around with the freaking dragonflies,” I told him. Carter was the

only one I had told about what Grandma Hazel had told me about my mother’s

gifts. I still visited her whenever I went to New York. The old lady aged well for the

hard life she chose to live out there in the wilds of Appilachia. She was always

sitting in the rocking chair waiting for me claiming she dropped some silverware

and that’s how she knew someone was coming. The raven or the smoke black wolf

was always sitting with her. Sometimes there was more than one raven, I had

stopped questioning things. Everytime we went for a walk in the woods and found

ourselves at the waterfall. Sometimes she taught me about the plants of the area as

she forages somehow knowing the difference of one mushroom to the other by feel

and scent alone.

I stared at the spot they had been long after they had flitted away. Carter just sat

quietly beside me not wanting to interrupt this moment. However, Misty did it for

us when she leaned over the back of the couch and asked. “What are we staring at?”

“You wouldn’t believe me if I told you,” I said.

“I’m enjoying my boring soccer mom era so I’m not going to ask you to elaborate.

Lunch is ready,” Misty said. The grilled cheese and massive pot of soup was ready,

that’s as far as she was reaching for anything today. She and Beck had their hands

full, this pack had become a haven for her and Beck’s projects; women who had

come face to face with the worst sort of men out there. Humans and wolves alike

now called the Divide pack home. Misty, Lana, and I checked in on them, we’re an

ear for their troubles and helped them get on their feet. Many had found good men

here, others thrived staying single. The riffraff had been expelled from the pack and

humans and outcast wolves now called Divide their home. Everything had come full

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Carter and I got up and went inside settling the twins with their lunch and

collected our own. I found myself staring at the sculpture on the mantel of the

fireplace as I chewed. It was the thing Lana and Mazzie had gone back for that

Christmas. Bits of recycled metal wrapped around a petrified wood branch,

depicting a woman with a wolf emerging from her chest and winding around her. I

found myself staring at it often, amazed that I had found myself here, resting in joy

and contentment after all the horrors, and life altering moments I had been

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