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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.”

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

the room – a door that I swear was not there

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

as he gets up and crosses the small room

tight in his arms and rocking me back and forth

head against my neck.

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

news-”

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

resounding joy in its place. “You were as anxious as

was!”

admits, his voice muffled against

to be all

him think it. But despite all of

stop smiling. Inside me my wolf

her fur, getting used to the feel

freely.

up a little straighter and grins down into my face. “This is

“The baby is going to be a wolf, and you have a wolf, and

bond -” he shakes his head, laughing,

I murmur, smiling up at him and raising my hands to bury my fingers

crazy different, like expanded –

interrupting me and

tug at the collar of my

then as I see him eyeing that soft place between

I burst into laughter and swat him away.

mouth dropping open a little bit – but we’re both too

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

has snapped together on both ends. It’s like

having to look at

not?” He asks, and I can sense

slapping his shoulder playfully. “We’re in my mom’s

are people that live here! We’re not just going to

back of the

asks, looking at

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

little more decency than that.” And then as

and pulls me closer, looking

whole body shakes. It takes him a moment

we pass our joy between

it that makes me so

when we both calm down a little bit, after he presses his

mouth and kisses me,

me feel absolutely complete.

his

precise intentions.

my nose, just as my wolf does to his in

better,” I whisper, feeling an

didn’t feel before.

his arms, his eyes

us.

murmurs. And Sinclair and Ella are going to flip when

them that Rafe -”

suddenly, unable to finish his sentence. I feel his

the bond before he looks up and