Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

#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.”

And then, as Roger and I watch, my mother passes through a door in the back of the room – a door that I swear was not there a moment ago –

him, he starts to laugh – a low, delighted sound – as

he murmurs, still holding me tight. “I knew it was all going to be good

my system I feel myself filling with a deep and resounding joy in its

deep down. I knew it was going to be all right.

him think it. But despite all of it, I can’t stop smiling. Inside me my wolf turns in a happy little circle, prancing around and shaking out her fur, getting used to the feel of her body moving

and grins down into my face. “This is so cool,” he murmurs. “The baby is going to be

I murmur, smiling up at him and raising my hands to bury my fingers in his hair. “I feel – I feel crazy different, like expanded

and looking down at my neck, raising his hand to start to tug at the collar of my

my shoulder and my neck I burst into

1- that the mating bond has snapped together on both ends. It’s like he can intuit my emotions and my meaning without even having to look at me, even

He asks, and I can sense his

in my mom’s house – there are people that live here!

not?” he asks, looking at me like I’m

have a little more decency than that.” And then as he wraps his arms around my waist and pulls me closer, looking hungrily down at me, I start to laugh so hard that my whole body shakes. It takes him a moment but then he’s laughing with me, and we pass our

we both calm down a little bit, after he presses his lips warmly to my mouth and kisses me, soundly, warmly, so that the love sweeps through me and makes me feel absolutely complete. “But as soon as we’re alone – really alone, Cora…” he snaps his teeth at me, letting me know

my wolf does to his in the precise same moment. “You’d better,” I whisper, feeling an intense hunger for his mark that I didn’t

body to my stomach as he makes space between us. “So cool that the baby’s going to have powers,” he murmurs. And Sinclair

his sentence. I feel his shock and awe down the bond before he looks up and whispers my name. into my

wide. It’s not fear – nothing in his reaction tells

me something down the bond – something I don’t understand, something that doesn’t have

I become aware of…a new little connection inside of me. A link that has been there,

both realize what it is, I gasp and she gambols forward in excitement. Our pup! She shouts in my mind, her heart and my heart both leaping with joy to