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 – ”

at her in desperation.

out go out and

the goddess’s face, her

We are from different realms – I know she is bound

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

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

that I can interfere physically in your world once in your life. And

you sure

There is nothing else –

that could be worse – ”

looking clearly into my eyes. “You will…not

again. Ever, Ella. It is the last time

of my temples.”

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

into my eyes as she nods, realizing that

understand.

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

you could

her, knowing I should think about it more –

I nod. I let her know

breaks my heart

right, darling,” she murmurs and then

And for a moment the

same as her hands against my face

a slight tingle until, slowly, her lips

skin.

come howling back to me, her teeth

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

to help

– knowing it is done – knowing that she

unbind my wolf

been…

says as she begins to fade from my

of me,” she says, reaching

her gift grows

then, quite suddenly, she is

I blink back to myself realizing thatThat even though that

have passed –

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

now, hot within me. And I hold onto it,

burn through me – through my mind, my heart, my skin And

ice begins to

Sinclair

lets out a roar of rage, dashing away from

outside the clinic, holding his head

the move, shifting into my wolf and bellowing in pain as I

my skin stretch horribly, as I

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

adrenaline,

my body screams in my

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

carries my son. She’s locked in

her, as I ignore my pain

into the chase.

in her steps, turnHer eyes go wide with horror as I pull together my last bit of