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.

I breathe, my eyes turned up now towards the

Thank you.”

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

understanding,

magic was here lifts, and

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

staring

see?” I

“See you plunge into the pond yelling at

at me I let out a deep breath. “Okay. Guess that

“She showed you more!?”

in darkness. So, she showed me him as an old

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

say, pointing down at his shoes, “have warm dry feet. So.

baby’s face is peaceful now, his eyes starting to drift shut. “Leave it to you, trouble,” he murmurs, “to bully the Goddess

arms when he offers him to me, probably knowing that I’m upset and want to

leave it to you,” Sinclair sighs, wrapping a warm arm around my shoulders. “Come on. Let’s go

later, Sinclair makes good on his promise and comes out of Cora and Roger’s closet,

down at me with her baby in her

I say on

out of the forest and went totally still. We tried to 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 so

a polite 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

though he’s doing

right, Cora,” he says, putting a hand on

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