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.

go out go out and kill her just something my

on the goddess’s face, her desire to help

different realms – I know she is bound

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

Ella,” she says,

world once in your life. And I will

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

nothing else

that could be worse –

a price,” she says, looking clearly into my eyes. “You

Ever, Ella. It is the last time we will speak

of my temples.”

look up at her, as

down into my eyes as she nods, realizing

understand.

says softly to me. “I just wanted

so you could

her, knowing I should think about

part of me does. Sharply, I nod. I let

it breaks my heart

darling,” she murmurs and then she leans

all right.” And for a moment the press of

feels the same as

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

skin.

my wolf come

to her, in her

to help our baby

mother, then – knowing it is done – knowing that she

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

been… used

begins to fade from my sight. “You

a piece of me,” she says, reaching out hand to

gift grows

quite suddenly,

I blink back to myself realizing thatThat even though that

have passed –

get to my son. Now. So

me. And I hold onto it, and access its strength,

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

begins to

Sinclair

brother lets out a roar of rage, dashing away from Hank who

holding

into my wolf and bellowing

stretch horribly, as I feel my

the injuries in them scream in

now, running on fear and adrenaline, pushing myself

in my

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

my son. She’s locked in my sight now,

as I stream towards her, as I

into the chase.

in her steps, turnHer eyes go wide with horror as I