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

unbind my gift – go out go out and kill her

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

different realms – I know she is bound by rules

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

“Once, Ella,” she says,

I can interfere physically in your world once in

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

nothing else – – no other situation that

worse – ” Please,

is a price,” she says, looking clearly into my eyes. “You will…not

again. Ever, Ella. It is the last

of my temples.”

up at her, as I realize that the price

looks steadily down into my eyes as she

understand.

she says softly to

so you could

I should think about it more –

no part of me does. Sharply, I nod. I let her know that I know the price,

breaks my heart

and then she leans forward

And

feels the same as her hands against my face

slowly, her lips grow warm and

skin.

feel my wolf come howling back to me, her teeth

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

to help our

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

wolf and her gift. And in

been… used

begins to fade

reaching out hand

gift grows warm. “Use

quite suddenly, she

realizing thatThat even though that felt like a few long

have passed –

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

I hold

me – through my mind, my heart,

ice begins

Sinclair

of rage, dashing away

the clinic, holding his

my wolf and bellowing in

my skin stretch horribly, as

injuries in them scream in

adrenaline, pushing myself to go after

my body screams in my mind

I ignore it, forcing myself forward beyond the pain, sprinting

carries my son. She’s locked in my sight

as I ignore my pain

into the chase.

steps, turnHer eyes go wide with horror as I pull together