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. “Do

go out go out and kill

her grief on the goddess’s face, her desire to help as well as

from different realms – I

but I can’t believe that

“Once, Ella,” she says, her face hard. “There is

your world once in your life. And I will

it again. Are you

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

could be worse – ” Please, mother,

clearly into my eyes. “You will…not be

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

of my temples.”

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

looks steadily down into my

understand.

worth it, child,” she says softly to me. “I just wanted

you could

her, knowing I should think about

no part of me does. Sharply, I nod. I let her

breaks my heart –

darling,” she murmurs and then she leans

be all right.” And for a

same as her hands against

her lips grow

skin.

wolf come howling back to me, her teeth ripping

done to her,

help

look up at my mother, then – knowing it is done – knowing that she

my wolf and her gift. And in its

has been… used

says as she begins to fade from

me,” she says, reaching

grows

quite suddenly, she is

thatThat even though that felt like a

have passed –

get to my son. Now. So I reach within myself,

within me. And I

mind, my heart, my skin And all

begins

Sinclair

of rage, dashing away from

the clinic, holding his head

on the move, shifting into my wolf and bellowing in pain

on my skin stretch horribly, as I

the injuries in them scream in protest against it.

on fear and adrenaline,

my body screams in

I ignore it, forcing myself forward beyond the

my son. She’s locked in my sight

as I ignore my pain

into the chase.

hears me – she her hesitate in her steps, turnHer eyes go wide with horror