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.

shrug. “I wasn’t going to let her end the vision there. So…we kind of got into a fight, and then she gave me the last image – of Jesse old and happy, so that

bursts into laughter then, looking down at her little baby. “We chose the right godmother for you, baby,” she sighs. “Always getting her money’s

clear told-you-so expression on my

you think it

my hand 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

me with a little guilt in her eyes. “We saw Rafe was going to be a warrior too. So, at least they’ll

at that, but 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 I feel

that, though,” I murmur.

stepping away from me a little,

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

he

at him, dismissive. I turn my eyes back to Cora. “Mom said that Jesse’s mission will be his own and that she doesn’t know the outcome. But honestly, Cora, he seemed…very capable. And very

up at Sinclair, wondering if he felt the same. 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

long moment, shifting their gaze to

here? And he’s so…tiny?” Roger takes a deep breath that breaks my heart a little bit, shaking his head as he stares

a little, and I bite my lip to see the humor returning to these two. Because if they’re joking about it…I think it means that they’re strong

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