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.

give a 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

“We chose the right godmother for you, baby,” she

at Sinclair with a very clear told-you-so expression on my face. “Only the full baptism experience for my baby

do you think it means?” Roger

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 way

Cora sighs, looking up at me with a little guilt in her eyes. “We saw Rafe was going to be a warrior too. So, at

me at that, but I just nod, tucking the information away. I mean, considering who his dad is? I can’t

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

Sinclair says, breaking in and stepping away from

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

bad!?” he

to Cora.

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 whatever gift the Goddess gave to him… it’s

gaze to their little boy. Sinclair and I sit quietly, letting them

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, like…being really, really good

the humor returning to these two. Because if they’re joking about it…I think it means that they’re strong enough

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