Accidental Surrogate

Chapter 393: Do You Know what I Know?

Cora

“What?” I ask, confused. I – I have a gift? I quickly search for it within myself

but….it’s not there. I mean, I know how Ella’s feels – she passed it to me before,

I carried it – but there is nothing in me now that feels anything like that…

“Yours is different from your sisters,” the Goddess explains. “Ella’s soul is that of

a healer, and so that is her gift. Yours,” she smiles lightly, “reflects you. You’ve

used it before,” she says, turning her head to glance at Roger with a little laugh.

“I’m surprised you did not notice it then.”

“What?” I ask again, still baffled. But she turns to go and I grab for her hand.

“Please,” I say, shaking my hand, “I don’t understand -”

“Perhaps you should ask your sister for help,” the Goddess says with a shrug.

“She can guide you to it, I think, as hers is already unlocked. But you already

have your gift, Cora.” She assures me. She hesitates then before laughing a

little, “as does your child.”

“What!?” I say for the third time, my mouth falling open now as I stare at her and

then glance down at my stomach before looking back up into her face. ” My

child -”

“All your children,” she says simply, as if it’s obvious, “will be gifted, as you are,

as Ella is. As you, my daughters, are gifts to me – it is my gift to you, and to all

of your children.”

“Whoa,” Roger says, sitting back in his chair and raising a hand to his head in

shock. “All…all are kids are going to be magic?”

The Goddess laughs a little. “Each will be gifted,” she says simply, turning back

to me. “And each gift will be unique, and will reflect each child’s unique spirit. As

yours does, as Ella’s does. They’ll all have pieces in common but -” she sighs

happily now, shaking her head as if it’s too complicated to explain. “You will see,

Cora. I need not explain it all. Your children will show you.”

“Thank you,” I whisper.

“I love you,” the Goddess says, raising her hand and brushing my cheek with

her fingertips. “Carry that knowledge your whole life. I will see you again,” she

promises, and I cling to that prophecy just a little, “but until then carry my love.”

my mother

the room – a door that I

each other. And then, as I continue to stare at

– as he gets up and crosses

his arms and rocking me back and forth as he

head against my neck.

me tight. “I knew it was all

news-”

did not,” I laugh, and finally as the shock leaves my system

with a deep and resounding joy in its place. “You

was!”

against my skin, “but like… deep down.

was going to be all right.

letting him think it. But despite all of it,

Inside me my wolf

out her fur, getting used to the feel

freely.

little straighter and grins down into my face. “This is

murmurs. “The baby is going to be a wolf, and you have a wolf, and

he shakes his

know,” I murmur, smiling up at him and raising my

“I feel – I feel crazy different, like expanded – ”

we do it now?” he asks, interrupting me

to start to tug at

eyeing that soft

into laughter and

dropping open a little

actually be offended. We’re

together on both ends. It’s like

and my meaning without even having to look at me,

He asks, and I can

I say, slapping his shoulder playfully. “We’re in

are people that live here! We’re not just going

of the

he asks, looking at me like

not! I may be a

I have a little more decency than that.” And

and pulls me closer, looking

my whole body shakes.

with me, and we pass our joy

it that makes me so happy I can

he murmurs when we both calm down a little bit, after he

kisses me, soundly,

feel absolutely

really alone, Cora…” he snaps his teeth at

precise intentions.

just as my wolf does to his in the

better,” I whisper, feeling an intense hunger for

didn’t feel before.

loosens his arms, his eyes drifting down my body

as he makes space between us. “So cool that

powers,” he murmurs. And Sinclair and Ella are going to

them that Rafe -”

his sentence. I feel his

looks up