Granted by the Beast: A Steamy Paranormal Romance Spin on Beauty and the Beast (Conduit Series Book 4) by Hamilton Rebecca & Kressley Conner

Author:Hamilton, Rebecca & Kressley, Conner [Hamilton, Rebecca]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Evershade Publishing
Published: 2019-07-29T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

It’s weird enough when a stranger knows your name. It’s weirder, though, when they know it because their great-great-grandmother had foreseen this very moment years before you had ever been born.

That’s where I was currently sitting. In a cafe, with Huntsman, while I stared at a woman who knew enough about my life to freak me out.

“We should take a walk,” Stacey, the weirdo who knew those things, said from where she stood next to Huntsman and me. Her eyes brightened and her smile widened impossibly more as she set the coffeepot on the cheap formica table of the coffee shop.

“You’re at work,” I said, trying to buy myself some time from having to be alone with this woman. “You can’t leave when you’re at work.”

It was insane of me to say; I knew that even as she was staring at me with wide eyes. With all that was going on, the idea of Stacey working being the thing that would stop us from continuing this conversation was ridiculous. Still, my mind had to go somewhere, and that was what it decided on.

“Oh yeah,” Stacey said, scrunching up her nose and turning to the front of the coffee shop. “Hey, Carl. I quit, okay?”

Without even breaking stride, she popped off her apron, letting her name tag fall to the floor.

I was completely dumbfounded, feeling like I was stuck in an episode of the Twilight Zone. I mean, I lived with a mage, and magic was normal to me. This, however, was not something I was used to. No one in New York just quit their job when they wanted to take a walk. Money was hard to come by.

A balding man who looked like the world had chewed him up and spit him out stared at Stacey blankly before he shrugged. “Okay.”

Then he turned back to helping customers as though one of his employees hadn’t just quit in the middle of their rush. It didn’t seem he expected anyone to stick around this hole in the wall for long.

I looked around, hoping that a few of the other customers felt the same way I did, and was sort of happy when I saw the astonished looks on a few other occupants’ faces.

Stacey sashayed back to the table, excitement on her face as if today were Christmas. “Well, now that I’ve quit and that’s done,” she said cheekily. “Meet you outside.”

She walked out, not once looking back to see if we were following her. If my eyes were even half as wide as Huntsman’s, I should have been able to see clear to the moon.

“Are we actually going to follow her?” Huntsman asked, glancing from me to outside and back again.

Stacey had already pushed through the coffee shop door to stand on the sidewalk. A sea of yellow cabs whizzed on the street behind her.

I stood, clearing my throat. “We’ve already come this far. We might as well see the damn thing through.”

Huntsman stood and followed me as I walked out of the coffee shop, his footsteps clomping behind me in lazy thuds.

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