Chapter 395: By the Light of the Fire

Ella

That night, again around the fire, Henry leans forward in his chair and rests his

elbows on his knees, smiling around at us.

“So, tell me if I’ve got this right,” he says, clearly tickled by it. “My two sons are

mated to two sisters, who each have the Goddess’ blood in their veins, which

means…” .” he pauses here, putting his thoughts together, “that all of my

grandchildren are going to have mystical powers?”

Cora shrugs, grinning at him. “That’s what she told us,” she says, laughing a

little bit.

“Well,” Henry says, pleased, leaning back in his chair and shaking his head in

disbelief. “This saves me a great deal of worry.”

Sinclair turns to him confused. ” What? Why?”

“Because,” Henry says, shrugging, trying to hold back his grin. “Imagine if just

one of you were mated to a Goddess -born wolf, and only half of my

grandchildren had magical powers. At least this way, I don’t have to pretend that

I like the non-magical ones as much as the others.”

We all laugh at this, but I shake my head at Henry’s streak of dark humor.

Because, beneath it, we all know that it’s not true. He was always going to love

all of the grandchildren equally, no matter what.

“I wonder what your gift will be, little baby,” I say to Rafe, who is awake and

sitting up in my lap, holding my fingers in his little fists and looking interestedly

around at our group. I was very intrigued when Cora told me that all of their gifts

would vary according to their personalities – I, like her, had assumed that they

would be the same. We still haven’t figured out Cora’s gift yet, though we’ve all

be thinking.

“Rafe’s will probably be shooting lasers from his eyes,” Roger murmurs, leaning

forward to study my son. I shoot a little glare at Roger and he grins at me.

“No, he’s going to be a healer, like mommy,” I say, kissing Rafe’s head and

making him look up at me with a little baby smile. I smile back at him, unable to

help it.

“Nah, Rafe’s got a warrior’s soul,” Sinclair says at my side, leaning back in his

chair and proudly considering son. It will be something to do with that.”

“Nooo,” I say in denial, glaring at my mate now. “Rafe is gentle. His powers will

be for peace.”

“What about ours?” Roger asks, turning to Cora. “Are you getting any hints

down the bond?”

a little. “I can’t even figure out what

a little in frustration, even though

joy today. Everything for her – for all of us

coming up roses.

Cora,” I say with my own contented

“We’ll figure

putting her chin in

“if my gift had been healing too. Considering

haughtiness, grinning at her,

gentle, and loving, and

in my personality -”

gives me a little false glare, and I laugh,

But then Cora cocks her head to the side,

something.

sits up straight and looks around.

and I had

and Sinclair immediately agree and start to stand up but

little. “Why?”

turning to him, “about Ella…being

mind? A little sister time, to see if

his mouth a little and I laugh a little when I see that he does

because I

her for a single moment right now

gives him a little shove, he sighs

Sinclair says,

arms so that Cora and I can

“I’ll teach you how to change

Cora and I laugh as the men help Henry onto

head inside the

thinking?” I ask eagerly,

each other in the dim light of

Cora sighs, looking down at her hands and

“She said that you could

at me now, her mouth twisted to the side as

you think I’m like

deny that, but she puts up a

be healed? With your powers? So that I

access the gift?”

up straight. “I

the gift from mom – or

like, do something to get it going. Some

ceremony like that.”

try,” she says, shrugging.” Do you want to…give

for her hands. And then, quite quickly,

Her wolf raises her nose to the

warm little nudge, and I smile as I sense her. Such a pretty wolf

of brown, from the lightest tawny to nearly

places that she’s hurt or tied up

come up with nothing.

I sigh, dropping her hands and sinking back onto the

as

in the

the next option. “Um,” she says, “do you think

could try healing you?”

ask, my face twisting with

were linked. Maybe

that will allow me to like, access my

I say, and I hold my hand out to

sigh, realizing that I’ve been meaning to

distracted. ” My gift could fix this up

and takes my hand in hers, closing her

I access

to

heal it myself.

gasp a little when I do feel

I see Cora push and concentrate, but then,

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