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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 – ”

I sob, looking up at her in desperation.

my gift – go out go out

the goddess’s face, her desire

are from different realms – I know she is bound by rules

believe that there’s not

goes grim. “Once, Ella,” she says, her

in your world

to do it again. Are you

desperate. There is nothing else – –

could be worse – ” Please, mother,

is a price,” she says, looking clearly

Ella. It is the

of my temples.”

as I look up at her, as I realize that the price for this magic is….

my eyes as she

understand.

worth it, child,” she says softly to me. “I

so you could

knowing I should think about it more – that I should hesitate

Sharply, I nod. I let her know that I know the price,

my heart – I accept

and then

my forehead. “It will be all right.” And for a moment the press of

feels the same as

her lips grow warm

skin.

feel my wolf come howling back to me, her teeth ripping

inside me at the injustice done to her, in her

help our

look up at my mother, then – knowing it is done – knowing

wolf and her gift. And

been…

love you, Ella,” she says as she begins to fade from my sight. “You

says, reaching out hand to point

gift grows warm. “Use

suddenly,

realizing thatThat even though that felt like a few long minutes

have passed –

get to my son. Now.

hot within me. And I hold onto it, and

my mind, my heart, my skin

ice begins

Sinclair

dashing away from Hank who sits limp on

holding

already on the move, shifting into my wolf and bellowing in

my skin stretch horribly, as I feel my inner

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

adrenaline, pushing myself to go

my body screams in my mind to

ignore it, forcing myself forward beyond the pain,

locked in

I stream towards her, as I ignore my pain and hurl

into the chase.

– she her hesitate in her steps, turnHer eyes