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 ideas everything forward towards her. And I hear

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

ice, unbind my gift – go out go out and

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

grim. “Once, Ella,” she says, her face 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 worse – ” Please, mother,

into my eyes. “You will…not be able to call upon me again. Ever, Ella. It

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

just wanted you to know what

about it more – that I should hesitate

her know that I know the price, and though it breaks my heart – I accept

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

slight tingle until, slowly, her lips grow warm and corporeal

me at the injustice done to her, in her eagerness to get out of here, to help our

– knowing that she has used the magic of

have a piece of me,” she says, reaching out hand to point towards my

then, quite suddenly, she

back to

that felt like a few long minutes with my

me. And I hold onto it, and access its strength, and let it burn through

Sinclair

dashing away from Hank who sits limp on the ground outside the clinic, holding

already on the move, shifting into my wolf and bellowing in pain as I do so, 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,

That it can’t-

my sight now, her form growing continually larger as I stream towards her, as I ignore my pain and hurl my body

she hears me – she her hesitate in