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

room – a door that I swear was

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

he gets up and crosses the small

and rocking me back and forth

head against my neck.

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

news-”

finally as the shock leaves my system

and resounding joy in its

was!”

voice muffled against my skin, “but like… deep

it was going to

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

smiling. Inside me my wolf

fur, getting used

freely.

grins down into

a wolf, and you have a

he shakes his head, laughing, thrilled at

and raising

feel crazy different, like expanded

asks, interrupting me and

to tug at the collar of my

him eyeing that soft place between

I burst into laughter and swat him away. “Ew,

He says, his mouth dropping open a little bit – but

to actually be offended. We’re we’re just…so connected

has snapped together on both ends. It’s like he can intuit

meaning without even having to look at me, even listen to

I can sense

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

not just going

of the

hell not?” he asks, looking at me like I’m

I gasp, “Absolutely not! I may be a wolf in spirit, but I was

have a little more decency than that.”

me closer, looking

whole body shakes. It takes him a moment

our joy between ourselves down that bond,

of it that makes me so happy I can

both calm down a little bit, after he presses his

kisses me, soundly, warmly, so

and makes me feel absolutely

really alone, Cora…” he snaps his

precise intentions.

as my wolf does

whisper, feeling an intense hunger for his mark

didn’t feel before.

arms, his eyes drifting down

between us. “So cool that the baby’s

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

them that Rafe -”

unable to finish his sentence.

before he looks up and whispers my name. into my