Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 274

#Chapter 274 – Bonded

Ella

My head feels…so heavy. I groan, trying to move my hands up so I can press them against my temples, but I can’t move them.

“Easy,” I hear him say beside me and instinctually I turn towards his voice. Where –

“Easy, Ella,” he murmurs, his words thick with emotion. “It’s all right…”

I peel my eyelids apart, then, confused at the effort. It’s like I haven’t opened my eyes for weeks…

My vision comes back to me slowly, the room around me coming into focus with effort. I blink rapidly, looking around at Sinclair, and Cora, and Roger all standing around me, peering at me with worried faces. I feel very suddenly like Dorothy, when she wakes up from her trip to Oz.

“What?” I murmur, my voice thick and my throat scratchy. Suddenly anxious, I try to sit up, pushing at the bed beneath me but –

What the hell were all these wires, tied to my arms?

“Easy, trouble,” Sinclair whispers, pressing his hand to my shoulder, keeping me down. My body responds to his command, relaxing backwards as I look up at him. But…

“Where am I?” I ask, staring at him, and then I press my eyes closed. It’s all just too much.

“You’re in the hospital,” I hear my sister explain. “After the gift, at the temple…”

But her voice fades, almost as if I can’t hear it. I feel my heart start to pound, my breath ratchet up as my memories start to come back to me. Of being on the temple steps of Cora there, and what we learned about each other of Sinclair’s warm arms around me –

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And then, nothing – and then clouds – and Sinclair again, and my baby –

Oh my god, where was my baby?

Then I start to look all around me, searching for him – he’s here, he has to be, I remember him, my little baby, wrapped in white swaddling, holding him in

Ella – we met him in the dream –”

then, drawing my attention to it, reminding me

breathe, moving my own hands so that they rest on either side of my baby. Then I close my eyes, resting

to him, sending all the love I have in my heart down our bond, and

whole body relax. I open my eyes again, feeling a rush of sudden and unexpected joy. I look up to Sinclair and nod. “Okay. Yes.

a huge rush of air, grasping one of my hands

minute as

come flying back to reality after such a hard few weeks, after

else

doctor,” I hear Roger murmur, and then his

room.

my eyes and reaching my other hand for her. Sinclair straightens at my

the tears that are falling down

her, unable to help myself, and then glance down at my poor beat up little body. “Um, I think so?” I feel so weak but there is also…a warmth, a stillness in me that feels… I frown,

her hair. “Yeah? I gave you back mom’s the

straighter in my bed. “Cora!” I scold. “Why?! I gave it to you –

”

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“you’re being ridiculous – you were dying – of course I gave it back to you I didn’t even

a little mad now. “It’s a gift from a Goddess – from our mom – I worked so hard to get it here, the least you could

”

when I’m clearly so sick. I look up at him, my eyes apologetic, and I see his face instantly soften. “Please, Ella,” he begs.” You’re so weak – and she saved you with it – it can’t possibly

Cora. “Okay,” I repeat, raising a finger to point at her. “But as soon as I’m better, you’re taking it

tears off of her cheeks. “Whatever you say, sis.”

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Rafe hot on his heels. It’s a man I haven’t seen before certainly not one of my normal doctors –

“I have to say, I’m shocked to see you awake –” He quickly grasps

hesitating, looking up at

still holding my hand. “An intervention from the Goddess, if you will,” he observes, a little humor in his voice. The doctor’s face screws up further with confusion but then he simply exhales quickly

the monitors. “Whatever it was it is

through my back. Sinclair starts at my grimace, leaning closer to me, scenting me,

to himself. “Better, if anything, than he was the last time I was in here.” “Good,” I say,

still incredibly weak. You have days yet in

I want it enough, he’ll pick me up and carry me bodily out of this hospital right now. But he slowly shakes his head too, letting me know he agrees with the doctor. “I want you

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