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.”

and, sobbing, I press my thoughts – my memories – my fears – my ideas everything forward towards her. And I hear her gasp at

again to see her shaking her head at me. “Your gift is

I sob, looking up at her in desperation. “Do something melt this ice, unbind my gift –

are from different realms – I know she is bound by rules different than me – but I can’t believe that there’s not

hard. “There is a way that I can interfere physically in your world once in your

no other situation that I could imagine that could be

call upon me again. Ever, Ella.

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

“I just wanted

her, knowing I should think about it more

Sharply, I nod. I let her know that I know the price,

right, darling,” she murmurs and then she leans forward 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

slight tingle until, slowly, her lips grow warm

me, her teeth ripping and gnashing inside me at the injustice done to her, in her eagerness to get out of here, to help

has used the magic of our bond to unbind my wolf and

to fade from my sight. “You will always have a piece of me,”

then, quite suddenly, she is

back to myself

few long minutes with my mother, only

hot within me. And I hold onto it, and access its strength, and let

Sinclair

who sits limp on the ground outside the clinic, holding his head

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

That it can’t-

the pain, sprinting towards the priestess who carries my son. She’s locked in my sight now,

the moment that she hears me – she her hesitate