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.

my eyes turned up now towards the

Thank you.”

were before. “Even if you don’t

understanding, committing to

magic was here lifts, and

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

Sinclair asks, staring down at me with

I

plunge into the pond yelling at the sky like

at me

“She showed you more!?”

ended with Jesse in darkness. So, she showed

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

say, pointing down at his

laughs 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 to drift shut. “Leave it

to me, probably knowing that I’m upset and want to hold the baby close.

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

of Cora and Roger’s closet, tossing a pair of

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

on a sigh, “it’s not

and went totally still. We tried to put on a good show,

the house with food and drink so Jesse’s celebration could continue, but I could tell: the entire time, she just wanted to get us alone

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

all right, Cora,” he says, putting a

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