Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 487

#Chapter 487- Mothers and Fathers

Ella

“Ella, you can’t just demand

But I glare at Sinclair, slicing my hand through the air and shaking my head as I realize that he can’t hear what I’m hearing.

And the first thing that comes to my ears…

Is a laugh.

“All right, little daughter,” a soft voice says, and I instantly recognize it as my mother. “I stopped there for a reason, but if you get out of my pool, I’ll give you one more.”

I narrow my eyes at the moon but do as the Goddess bids, stepping out of the pool.

“I ended there because I do not know the outcome,” she says, her voice sorrowful. “His mission will be…his own. But, I do know this…”

And I reach out and put a hand on Sinclair’s arm, very tense. I gasp a little as a new vision forms very fleeting, very brief –

But in it, Jesse is an old, old man wrinkles crinkle around his eyes as he smiles down at a child in his arms

His grandchild, or maybe his great- grandchild or maybe not a child of his blood at all, but certainly one he loves very, very much –

It’s gone as soon as it comes, but it’s enough.

Jesse – he lives. And it’s enough.

up now towards the sky, the

Thank you.”

fainter now than they were before. “Even if you don’t trust this world,

nod, understanding, committing

magic was

fades until it’s just…a lake, or a pond

staring down

see?” I ask, desperate to

at me. “See you plunge into

vision!” I explain, and when he continues to stare at me I let

“She showed you more!?”

when the vision ended with Jesse in darkness. So, she showed me him as an old man,

get mad now but he’s a little too scared of her for blasphemy. “Well, that hardly seems fair,” he murmurs. ” Why do you

pointing down at his

at me almost despite himself, shaking his head as he wraps Jesse up tightly in his blanket. The baby’s face is peaceful now, his eyes starting

from Sinclair’s arms when he offers him to me, probably knowing that I’m upset and want to hold the baby close. “If I’m not going to bully a diety for him,

you,” Sinclair sighs, wrapping a warm arm around my

on his promise and comes out of

at me with her baby in her arms, ”

told you,” I say on a sigh, “it’s not

totally still. We tried to put on a good

with food and drink so Jesse’s celebration could continue, but I could tell: the entire time, she

he’s doing a bit better playing it

said it’s all right, Cora,” he says,

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