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.”

and I watch, my mother passes through a door in the

I swear was not there a moment

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

gets up and

and rocking me back and forth

head against my neck.

still holding me tight. “I knew it was all

news-”

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

a deep and resounding joy in its place.

was!”

he admits, his voice muffled against my skin, “but like…

was going to be all right.

I say, patting his back, letting him think it. But despite all of

wolf turns in a happy little

getting used to the

freely.

stands up a little straighter and grins down into

be a wolf, and you have a wolf, and

he shakes his

smiling up at him and raising my hands to bury my fingers

“I feel – I feel crazy different, like expanded

interrupting

his hand to start to tug at the collar

as I see him eyeing that soft

burst into laughter and

mouth dropping open a little bit

him to actually be offended. We’re we’re just…so connected now 1- that

together on both ends. It’s

meaning without even having to look at

asks, and I can

his shoulder playfully. “We’re in

We’re not just going to like, throw

back of

not?” he asks, looking at

be a wolf in

more decency than that.” And then as he wraps his

looking hungrily

my whole body shakes. It takes him a moment but then

pass our joy between ourselves down that bond,

it that makes me so

when we both calm down a little bit, after he

my mouth and kisses me, soundly, warmly, so that the love

me and makes me feel absolutely complete.

really alone, Cora…” he snaps his teeth

precise intentions.

with my nose, just as my

better,” I whisper, feeling an intense hunger for his mark

didn’t feel before.

arms, his eyes drifting down my

he makes space between us. “So

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

them that Rafe -”

finish his

before he looks up and whispers my name. into my