#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, the tension falling from

Thank you.”

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

I nod, understanding,

whatever magic was here

fades until

Sinclair asks, staring down at

see?” I ask, desperate

at me. “See you plunge into the

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

“She showed you more!?”

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

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

you,” I say, pointing down at his shoes,

in his blanket. The baby’s face is peaceful now, his eyes starting to drift shut. “Leave

me, probably knowing that I’m upset and want to hold the baby close. “If I’m not going to bully

sighs, wrapping a warm arm around my shoulders. “Come on. Let’s go get you

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

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

on a sigh, “it’s not

on a good

that everyone was happily settled in the house with food and drink so Jesse’s celebration could continue, but

he’s doing

says,

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