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.”

Roger and I watch, my mother passes through a

room – a door that I swear was not there a moment

then, as I continue to stare at him, he starts to

sound – as he gets up and

and rocking me back and forth as he buries

head against my neck.

it,” he murmurs, still holding me tight. “I knew it was all going

news-”

laugh, and finally as the shock leaves my system I

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

was!”

muffled against my skin, “but like…

was going to

letting him think it. But despite

wolf turns in a happy little circle,

fur, getting used to the feel of

freely.

grins down

be a wolf, and you have a wolf, and

mating bond -” he shakes his head,

him and raising my hands to bury

“I feel – I feel crazy different, like expanded – ” my whole body

do it now?” he asks, interrupting me and looking down at

to start to tug at the collar

eyeing that soft place

into laughter and swat him away. “Ew,

dropping open a little bit – but we’re

We’re we’re just…so connected

snapped together on both ends.

and my meaning without even having to look at

He asks, and I can

say, slapping his shoulder playfully. “We’re

people that live here! We’re not just going to like, throw down here

of the

the hell not?” he asks,

be a wolf

than that.” And then as he

me closer, looking hungrily

my whole body shakes.

we pass our joy between ourselves

that makes me so happy I can barely

down a little bit, after he presses

kisses me, soundly,

feel absolutely complete. “But

– really alone, Cora…” he snaps his teeth

precise intentions.

him with my nose, just as my wolf does to his in the precise

I whisper, feeling an intense hunger for his

didn’t feel before.

and loosens his arms, his

as he makes space between us. “So

murmurs. And Sinclair and Ella are going to flip when we

them that Rafe -”

he freezes, suddenly, unable to finish his sentence. I feel his

he looks up