Chapter 305 – Sister Talk
Ella
It feels like my sister has been gone with my baby for…hours. But in reality I know that it has been, at best, maybe half an hour. Still, while the rest of us mill around the dark forest, drinking champagne and waiting, I can’t keep myself from continuing to glance anxiously
into the darkness.
What’s keeping them? Why won’t they come back?
“Patience, trouble,” Sinclair says behind me and I sigh. Without looking at him, I lean back against his chest and raise my champagne flute to my mouth, taking a little sip.
“Those are two words that don’t go together, and you know it,” I mutter, frustrated.
His warm chuckle resonates against my back as he wraps an arm–around me. “Only you would try to rush a goddess.”
“She’s my mom!” I huff, looking up at him as I cross my arms. “I’ll rush her all I want.
Sinclair laughs again and shakes his head at me. “Let Cora and Roger have this time with Rafe.
It’s special for them too.”
“I’m dying to know if they’ll see anything about his future,” I say, looking back at my mate with a wide smile. “Do you think they will?”
“If I had to put money on it?” Sinclair says, contemplative. “Considering who Rafe’s grandmother is? Then…yeah, I think they’ll get a glimpse. But don’t push them too hard on it, Ella,” he advises. “It’s their experience as much as his. If they choose to keep it to themselves, that’s their right.”
chance I’m letting Cora keep secrets about my son’s future from me. As my mind goes wild with the possibilities, I see something flicker in the darkness.
same behind me.
Roger’s arm warm around her shoulder. Sinclair puts two fingers in his mouth and lets out a sharp whistle as I shout “Cora!” and dash into the woods,
three of
sister gives me a broad smile as we meet beneath the trees, happily handing my baby over into my waiting arms. I coo a little greeting to him, doing a little check down the bond to see that
reassuringly. “No
laugh, smiling down at my baby, who fusses a little in his blankets. He’s tired, I’m sure, even though he’s always up at this time of night anyway. “He didn’t have to
around me. “Come on, sis,” she says.
little cheer and raises their glasses to us, a gesture that fills me with warmth. It is so wonderful to see
leaning down to check on the
magnificent, as
asks, raising an amused eyebrow at
banshee.”
innocently at my mate. “That does nothing to take away from
me a little and then turns to
closer to us.
I ask leadingly, excited. “Did
that it’s a private affair, what happens between a child,
I warn, narrowing my eyes at him, “if you keep this from me, I
you
rest of your
teeth at me playfully, leaning forward. “Ah, Ella, but don’t you see? Now I have the power
me,” I declare impassively, turning to my sister. “Well?” I
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