Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 488- A Powerful Gift

Ella

Cora wipes at her face with the palms of her hands. “I’m sorry,” she says. “I just…I kind of flipped out.”

“The vision wasn’t bad,” I say, “I promise it wasn’t. And we get it – if you came out of the baptism ceremony looking like you’d jumped into the pool? I’d have freaked out too!”

“Yeah, well,” she murmurs, glancing down at my stomach, “maybe I’ll just do that out of spite in six months, see how you like it.”

I laugh then, the noise surprising me, and Cora’s face breaks into a tentative smile.

“There’s my girl,” Roger murmurs, lifting a hand to wipe at the last of her tears.

“I think we need to hear all of it,” Cora says, nodding to Sinclair and then to me. “Please. Just…maybe just for this baby, our first.”

“Okay,” I whisper, nodding. And then Sinclair and I tell her all of it – of all the wonderful things we saw for Rafe as he grows up, and his happiness with his cousins. And then we tell of the darkness we saw, and the incredible way he moved through it – of the challenge clearly laid out for him in his future.

“Wow,” Roger says, a little baffled as he looks down at his baby. “I have…I have no way of really comprehending what any of that means,” he murmurs.

“It was difficult to know what we were seeing,” Sinclair replies, looking down at me for confirmation. I nod. “Then, Ella got really pissed. That’s when she jumped into the pool.”

“What?!” Cora gasps.

So…we kind of got into a fight, and then she gave me the last image – of Jesse old

bursts into laughter then, looking down at her little baby. “We chose the right

Sinclair with a very clear told-you-so

it means?”

on my chin and gazing at the baby, wondering about his very strange and very interesting future. “He’s going to be very close with Rafe and with the new baby girl. And the

in her eyes. “We saw Rafe was going to be a warrior too. So, at least they’ll have each

I just nod, tucking the information away. I mean, considering who his dad is? I can’t say that I’m surprised. But I can think about how

it’s more than that, though,” I murmur. “Something

and stepping away from me a little, looking down at me. “She

I say, giving a little apologetic laugh and a shrug. “I forgot you didn’t hear her.

bad!?” he says,

my bad!” I return, rolling my eyes and brushing a hand through the air at him, dismissive. I turn my eyes back to Cora. “Mom said that Jesse’s

He sighs as he looks at me and then turns to nod to his brother and my sister. “That was the impression that I got too. That whatever gift the Goddess gave to him…

a long moment, shifting their gaze to their little boy.

you’d asked me before he was born if I wanted him to have a weird, cool, powerful gift, I’d have said hell yeah. But now that he’s here? And he’s so…tiny?” Roger takes a deep breath that breaks my heart a little bit, shaking his head as he stares at his son. “I wish his gift was something stupid,

my lip to see the humor

and Cora’s eyes flash up to me with a little bit of dread in them – like she doesn’t want any more information