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 – ”

sob, looking up at her

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

face, her desire to help as well

I know she

– but I can’t believe that there’s

Ella,” she says, her

in your world once in your life. And I will

be able to do it again. Are you sure that you

desperate. There is nothing else

be worse – ”

says, looking clearly into my

It is the

of my temples.”

gasp as I look up at her, as I realize that the price for this

She looks steadily down into my eyes as she nods, realizing

understand.

to me. “I just wanted you to know

so you could

think about it more – that

of me does. Sharply, I nod. I let her know that I know the price,

it breaks my heart –

darling,” she murmurs and then she leans forward and presses her

all right.” And for a moment

my forehead feels the same as her

tingle until, slowly, her lips grow warm and corporeal against

skin.

my wolf come howling back to me, her teeth

done to her, in her

help

knowing it is done – knowing that she

our bond to unbind my wolf and her gift. And in its

been… used

you, Ella,” she says as she begins to fade from my sight.

me,” she says, reaching out hand to point

her gift grows warm. “Use it

suddenly,

though that felt like a few long minutes

have passed –

that I have to get to my son. Now.

hot within me. And I hold onto it, and access its

my mind, my

ice begins

Sinclair

a roar of rage, dashing away from

outside the clinic, holding his

into my wolf

the wounds on my skin stretch horribly, as I feel my inner organs shift

form and the injuries in them scream in protest against it.

and adrenaline,

screams in my mind to stop

forcing myself forward beyond the pain,

locked in my

I stream towards her, as I

into the chase.

steps, turnHer eyes go wide with horror as I