Accidental Surrogate for Alpha

Chapter 275

Chapter 275

Bonded

Ella

My head feels…so heavy. I groan, trying to move my hands up so I can press them against my temples, but I can’t move them.

“Easy,” I hear him say beside me and instinctually I turn towards his voice. Where –

“Easy, Ella,” he murmurs, his words thick with emotion. “It’s all right…”

I peel my eyelids apart, then, confused at the effort. It’s like I haven’t opened my eyes for weeks…

My vision comes back to me slowly, the room around me coming into focus with effort. I blink rapidly, looking around at Sinclair, and Cora, and Roger all standing around me, peering at me with worried faces. I feel very suddenly like Dorothy, when she wakes up from her trip to Oz.

“What?” I murmur, my voice thick and my throat scratchy. Suddenly anxious, I try to sit up, pushing at the bed beneath me but –

What the hell were all these wires, tied to my arms?

“Easy, trouble,” Sinclair whispers, pressing his hand to my shoulder, keeping me down. My body responds to his command, relaxing backwards as I look up at him. But…

“Where am I?” I ask, staring at him, and then I press my eyes closed. It’s all just too much.

“You’re in the hospital,” I hear my sister explain. “After the gift, at the temple…”

But her voice fades, almost as if I can’t hear it. I feel my heart start to pound, my breath ratchet up as my memories start to come back to me. Of being on the temple steps of Cora there, and what we learned about each other of Sinclair’s warm arms around me –

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And then, nothing – and then clouds – and Sinclair again, and my baby –

Oh my god, where was my baby?

“Rafe?” I gasp, spinning towards Sinclair as my eyes fly open, desperate. “Where is Rafe?” Then I start to look all around me, searching for him – he’s here, he has to be, I remember him, my little baby, wrapped in white swaddling, holding him in my arms

“A dream,” Sinclair says hurriedly, “it was a dream, Ella – we met him in the dream –”

to it, reminding me that he’s here – of course he’s here, I

side of my baby. Then I close my eyes, resting my head back on the pillow, and search

him, sending all the love I have in my heart down our bond, and feeling a little pulse back. He hears me. He tells me he

rush of sudden and unexpected

a huge rush of air, grasping one of my hands and lowering his head so

like that for a long minute as

in in just a few minutes. To come flying back to reality after such a hard

there’s no where else

murmur, and then his footsteps

opening my eyes and reaching my other hand for her. Sinclair straightens at

she huffs, laughing through the tears that are

to help myself, and then glance down at my poor beat up little body. “Um, I think so?” I feel so weak but there is also…a warmth, a stillness in me that feels… I frown, looking

a little and running her hand through her hair. “Yeah? I gave you back mom’s the Goddess’s – the gift, I

“Cora!” I scold. “Why?! I gave it to you –

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ridiculous – you were dying – of course I gave it back to you I

from a Goddess –

”

in front of him, especially when I’m clearly so sick. I look up at him, my eyes apologetic, and I see his face instantly soften. “Please, Ella,” he begs.” You’re so weak – and she

raising a finger to point at her. “But

she laughs, agreeing to these terms, wiping the tears

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in, Rafe hot on his heels. It’s a man I haven’t

his expression worried. “I have to say, I’m shocked to see you awake –” He

was…” I say, hesitating, looking up at Sinclair. “Not precisely a

my hand. “An intervention from the Goddess, if you will,” he observes, a little humor in his voice. The doctor’s face screws up further with confusion but then he simply exhales quickly and shakes his head, dismissing

says, turning back to the monitors. “Whatever it was it

the baby all right?” I ask quickly, working to sit up further and wincing as a sharp pain spikes through my back. Sinclair starts at my grimace, leaning closer to me, scenting me, clearly working to figure

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