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.

turned up now towards the sky, the tension falling from my

Thank you.”

words even fainter now than they were before. “Even if you don’t

understanding, committing

whatever magic was here lifts, and she’s

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

just happened?” Sinclair asks, staring down

you see?” I ask, desperate

he asks, shaking his head at me. “See you plunge into the pond yelling at the

explain, and when he continues to stare at me

“She showed you more!?”

slowly. “She knew I was upset when the vision ended with Jesse in darkness. So, she showed me him as an old man, holding a

at the moon, as if he wants to get mad now but he’s a little too scared of her for blasphemy. “Well, that hardly seems fair,” he murmurs. ” Why do

at his shoes, “have

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

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

sighs, wrapping a warm arm around

Sinclair makes good on his promise and comes out of Cora

says, frowning down at me with her baby in her arms,

on a

course, she doesn’t believe me. Cora took one look at the wet hem of my gown, my ruined shoes, and Sinclair’s pale face when we came out of the forest and went totally still. We tried to put on a good show, ensuring the group of all the wonderful

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

is just as worried, though he’s doing a bit better

said it’s all right, Cora,” he says, putting a hand

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