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 – ”

up at

go out and kill

grief on the goddess’s face, her desire

– I know she is bound

can’t believe that there’s not something she

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

world

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

desperate. There is nothing else – –

worse –

looking clearly into my eyes.

again. Ever, Ella. It is the last time

of my temples.”

look up at her, as I

looks steadily down into my eyes as

understand.

says softly to me. “I just wanted you to know

you could save

knowing I should think about it more –

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

it breaks my heart –

murmurs and then she leans forward and presses

“It will be all right.” And

the same as her hands

her lips grow warm and corporeal

skin.

feel my wolf come howling back to me, her

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

to help our

then – knowing it is done – knowing that she has

wolf and her gift. And in

has been…

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

a piece of me,” she says, reaching

gift grows warm. “Use

suddenly,

I blink back to myself realizing thatThat even though that felt like a few

have passed –

to get to my son. Now. So I reach

hot within me. And I hold onto

mind, my

ice begins

Sinclair

a roar of rage, dashing away

holding his head in

into my wolf

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

and the injuries in them scream

running on fear and adrenaline, pushing myself to

my body screams in my mind

it, forcing myself forward beyond the pain, sprinting

She’s locked in my sight now, her

as I ignore my pain and hurl my

into the chase.

that she hears me – she her hesitate in her steps, turnHer eyes go wide with horror as I pull together my last bit of