#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.

now towards the sky,

Thank you.”

were before. “Even if you don’t trust this

nod, understanding,

magic was here lifts, and she’s

light from the pool fades until it’s

asks, staring

you see?” I ask, desperate to

you plunge into the pond yelling

me I let out a deep

“She showed you more!?”

ended with Jesse in darkness. So, she showed me him as an

scowls at me and then glances up at the moon, as if he wants to get mad now but he’s a little

say, pointing down at his shoes, “have warm dry

tightly in his blanket. The baby’s face is peaceful now, his eyes starting to drift shut. “Leave it to you, trouble,” he murmurs, “to bully the Goddess into showing you extra

taking the baby 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

around my shoulders. “Come on.

comes out of Cora and Roger’s closet,

Ella,” Cora says, frowning down at me with her baby in her

you,” I say on a sigh, “it’s

put on a good show, ensuring the group of all the wonderful things we saw which is true! – but Cora didn’t say much at all, ushering everyone into the waiting vans

hostess of course, and she made sure that everyone was happily settled in the house with food and drink so Jesse’s celebration could continue, but I could tell: the entire time, she just wanted to

is just as worried, though he’s doing

Cora,” he says, putting a hand on

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