Accidental Surrogate

Accidental Surrogate Chapter 376-The Cost Ella

My internal screaming continues, echoing through me as I grab whatever bond I

have to my Goddess mother and pull on it as hard as I can –

And I’m still screaming, there, in my mind and honestly maybe from my throat as

well, I’m too far beyond myself now to know – when suddenly…

…She’s here.

My mother’s presence materializes first in my mind as she reaches for me,

worried.

“Ella!” I hear her say, her voice chiming against my own frantic screams, “Ella, I

am here!”

Shocked shocked to feel her, shocked that it worked – I find myself thrown out

of my meditative state and into my own body, which is still freezing cold. But

when my eyes fly open I gasp to see that she’sShe’s actually here. Not just present in my mind – but standing before me. And

as I blink frantically, letting my eyes adjust, I realize that she’s not… physically

here. Not in the way she was when we met her in the desert. But she’s here in

her spirit – she presents herself before me in an echo of her true form, a

glowing, beautiful specter that reaches her hands out towards me.

“Mother!” I gasp. “Mom please – I need my baby – please release me -”

“Ella,” she says, coming forward and reaching for me, though her hands can’t

quite touch my face. I feel her, though something about her touch tingles against

my cheeks as she tries and fails to take my face in her hands. ” I don’t

understand, child – I don’t know what’s happening -”

And then I’m sobbing, looking up at her, desperate for her to know but so cold

now so incredibly cold – and unable to find the words to express it all-

“Close your eyes, darling,” she murmurs, looking down at me with her beautiful,

glowing face. “Show me.”

And I do. I press my eyes shut and, sobbing, I press my thoughts – my

memories – my fears – my ideas everything forward towards her. And I hear her

gasp at first in shock, and then coo with understanding. –

“All right, Ella,” she says softly, and I open my eyes again to see her shaking her

head at me. “Your gift is bound, my love and I cannot – ”

I sob, looking up at her in desperation.

ice, unbind my gift – go out go out and kill her just something

on the goddess’s face, her desire to help

– I know she is bound by

– but I can’t believe that there’s not something she can

face goes grim. “Once, Ella,” she says, her

can interfere physically in your world

again. Are you sure that you want it to be

desperate. There is nothing else – – no other situation that

be worse – ” Please,

looking clearly into

call upon me again. Ever, Ella. It is the last time

of my temples.”

I gasp as I look up at her, as I realize that the

steadily down into my eyes as she

understand.

child,” she says softly to me.

so you

should think about it more – that

me does. Sharply, I nod. I

heart

darling,” she murmurs and then she leans forward

my forehead. “It will be all right.” And for a moment

the same as her hands

until, slowly, her lips grow

skin.

as I feel my wolf come howling back

at the injustice done to her, in her eagerness to get

help our baby

my mother, then – knowing it is done –

to unbind my wolf

has been…

begins to fade from my sight. “You will

reaching

gift grows

quite suddenly,

to myself realizing thatThat even though that felt like a

have passed –

have to get to my son. Now. So I reach within

me. And I hold onto it, and access its strength,

mind, my heart,

ice begins to

Sinclair

rage, dashing away from Hank who

holding his head

my wolf and bellowing in pain

horribly, as

injuries in them scream

running on fear and adrenaline,

though my body screams in my mind

it can’tBut I ignore it, forcing myself forward beyond the

carries my son. She’s locked in

stream towards her, as I ignore my pain

into the chase.

moment that she hears me – she her hesitate in her steps, turnHer eyes