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Accidental Surrogate Chapter 376-The Cost Ella

My internal screaming continues, echoing through me as I grab whatever bond I

have to my Goddess mother and pull on it as hard as I can –

And I’m still screaming, there, in my mind and honestly maybe from my throat as

well, I’m too far beyond myself now to know – when suddenly…

…She’s here.

My mother’s presence materializes first in my mind as she reaches for me,

worried.

“Ella!” I hear her say, her voice chiming against my own frantic screams, “Ella, I

am here!”

Shocked shocked to feel her, shocked that it worked – I find myself thrown out

of my meditative state and into my own body, which is still freezing cold. But

when my eyes fly open I gasp to see that she’sShe’s actually here. Not just present in my mind – but standing before me. And

as I blink frantically, letting my eyes adjust, I realize that she’s not… physically

here. Not in the way she was when we met her in the desert. But she’s here in

her spirit – she presents herself before me in an echo of her true form, a

glowing, beautiful specter that reaches her hands out towards me.

“Mother!” I gasp. “Mom please – I need my baby – please release me -”

“Ella,” she says, coming forward and reaching for me, though her hands can’t

quite touch my face. I feel her, though something about her touch tingles against

my cheeks as she tries and fails to take my face in her hands. ” I don’t

understand, child – I don’t know what’s happening -”

And then I’m sobbing, looking up at her, desperate for her to know but so cold

now so incredibly cold – and unable to find the words to express it all-

“Close your eyes, darling,” she murmurs, looking down at me with her beautiful,

glowing face. “Show me.”

And I do. I press my eyes shut and, sobbing, I press my thoughts – my

memories – my fears – my ideas everything forward towards her. And I hear her

gasp at first in shock, and then coo with understanding. –

“All right, Ella,” she says softly, and I open my eyes again to see her shaking her

head at me. “Your gift is bound, my love and I cannot – ”

mother!” I sob, looking up at her in desperation.

– go out go out and

her grief on the goddess’s face, her desire to help

are from different realms – I know she is

– but I can’t believe that there’s

goes grim. “Once, Ella,” she says, her face hard. “There

that I can interfere physically in your world once in your

be able to do it again. Are you

else – – no other

be worse – ”

looking clearly into my eyes. “You

me again. Ever, Ella. It is the last time we will speak outside

of my temples.”

look up at her, as I realize that the price for

steadily down into my

understand.

says softly to me. “I just wanted you to

you

think about it more – that I should

of me does. Sharply, I nod. I let

heart – I accept

and then she leans forward and presses

all right.” And for a

forehead feels the same as her hands against

until, slowly, her lips

skin.

I feel my wolf come howling back to

done to her,

to help our

up at my mother, then – knowing it is done – knowing that she has

wolf and her gift. And in its unbinding,

has been…

she says as she begins to fade from my sight. “You will

says, reaching out hand to point towards

her gift grows warm. “Use

quite suddenly,

blink back to myself realizing thatThat even though that felt like a few long

have passed –

I have to get to my son. Now. So I

And I hold onto it, and access its strength,

through my mind, my heart, my skin

begins

Sinclair

of rage, dashing away from Hank

holding

into my wolf

wounds on my skin stretch horribly, as I feel my inner

injuries in them scream in protest against it. But I’m

adrenaline, pushing

my body screams in my mind

I ignore it, forcing myself forward beyond the pain,

carries my son. She’s locked in my sight

as I ignore my

into the chase.

steps, turnHer eyes go wide with horror as I pull together my last bit of will and