Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate by Caroline Above Story

#Chapter 375 – The Cost Ella

My internal screaming continues, echoing through me as I grab whatever bond I have to my Goddess mother and pull on it as hard as I can –

And I’m still screaming, there, in my mind and honestly maybe from my throat as well, I’m too far beyond myself now to know – when suddenly…

…She’s here.

My mother’s presence materializes first in my mind as she reaches for me, worried.

“Ella!” I hear her say, her voice chiming against my own frantic screams, “Ella, I am here!”

Shocked shocked to feel her, shocked that it worked – I find myself thrown out of my meditative state and into my own body, which is still freezing cold. But when my eyes fly open I gasp to see that she’s-

She’s actually here. Not just present in my mind – but standing before me. And as I blink frantically, letting my eyes adjust, I realize that she’s not… physically here. Not in the way she was when we met her in the desert. But she’s here in her spirit – she presents herself before me in an echo of her true form, a glowing, beautiful specter that reaches her hands out towards me.

“Mother!” I gasp. “Mom please – I need my baby – please release me -”

“Ella,” she says, coming forward and reaching for me, though her hands can’t quite touch my face. I feel her, though something about her touch tingles against my cheeks as she tries and fails to take my face in her hands. ” I don’t understand, child – I don’t know what’s happening -”

And then I’m sobbing, looking up at her, desperate for her to know but so cold now so incredibly cold – and unable to find the words to express it all-

“Close your eyes, darling,” she murmurs, looking down at me with her beautiful, glowing face. “Show me.”

my thoughts – my memories – my fears – my ideas

softly, and I open my eyes again to see her shaking her head at me. “Your gift is bound, my love and I cannot –

at her in desperation. “Do something melt this ice, unbind my gift – go out

– I know she is bound by rules

in your world once in your life. And I will never, ever be able to do it

is nothing else – – no other situation that I could imagine that could be worse

says, looking clearly into my eyes. “You will…not be able to call upon me

her, as I realize that the price for this magic is…. our bond. She looks

says softly to me. “I just wanted you to know what the

should think about it more

her know that I know

and presses her lips against my forehead. “It will be all right.” And for a moment the press of her kiss against my forehead feels the same as her hands against my

slight tingle until, slowly, her lips grow warm and

inside me at

– knowing that she has used the magic of our bond to

sight. “You will always have a piece of me,” she says, reaching out hand to point towards my chest, where her gift grows warm.

then, quite suddenly, she

blink back to

felt like a few long minutes with my mother, only seconds

my son. Now. So I reach within myself, accessing the gift burning now, hot within me. And I hold onto it, and access its strength, and let it burn through me – through my mind, my heart, my skin And

Sinclair

brother lets out a roar of rage, dashing away from Hank who sits limp on the

as the wounds on my skin stretch horribly, as I feel my inner organs shift into my wolf form and the injuries in them scream in protest against it. But I’m in full panic now, running on fear and adrenaline, pushing myself to go after my son even though my body screams in my

That it can’t-

forward beyond the pain, sprinting towards the priestess who carries my son. She’s locked in my sight now, her form growing continually larger as I stream towards her, as I ignore my pain and hurl my body into

the moment that she hears me – she her hesitate in her steps,