#Chapter 486- Mothers and Fathers

Ella

“Ella, you can’t just demand

But I glare at Sinclair, slicing my hand through the air and shaking my head as I realize that he can’t hear what I’m hearing.

And the first thing that comes to my ears…

Is a laugh.

“All right, little daughter,” a soft voice says, and I instantly recognize it as my mother. “I stopped there for a reason, but if you get out of my pool, I’ll give you one more.”

I narrow my eyes at the moon but do as the Goddess bids, stepping out of the pool.

“I ended there because I do not know the outcome,” she says, her voice sorrowful. “His mission will be…his own. But, I do know this…”

And I reach out and put a hand on Sinclair’s arm, very tense. I gasp a little as a new vision forms very fleeting, very brief –

But in it, Jesse is an old, old man wrinkles crinkle around his eyes as he smiles down at a child in his arms

His grandchild, or maybe his great- grandchild or maybe not a child of his blood at all, but certainly one he loves very, very much –

It’s gone as soon as it comes, but it’s enough.

Jesse – he lives. And it’s enough.

breathe, my eyes turned up now towards the sky, the tension falling from my

Thank you.”

them,” the Goddess says, her words even fainter now than they were before. “Even if you don’t trust this

understanding, committing to

magic was

light from the pool fades until it’s just…a lake, or a pond

Sinclair asks, staring down at me with wide

you see?” I ask,

you plunge into the pond yelling at the sky like a

when he continues to stare at me

“She showed you more!?”

was upset when the vision ended with Jesse in darkness.

but he’s a little too scared of her

his

tightly in his blanket. The baby’s face is peaceful now, his eyes starting to drift

him to me, probably knowing that I’m upset and want to hold the baby close. “If I’m not

a warm arm around my shoulders. “Come on. Let’s go get

on his promise and comes out of Cora and Roger’s closet, tossing a pair of

Cora says, frowning down at me with her baby

say on a sigh, “it’s not

came out of the forest and went totally still. We tried to put on a good show, ensuring the group of all the wonderful things we saw which is true! – but Cora didn’t say much at all, ushering everyone into the waiting vans so that we could all get back to the house as fast as

Jesse’s celebration could continue, but I could tell: the entire time, she just wanted to get us alone so that she could get the full

just as worried, though he’s doing a bit

it’s all right, Cora,” he says, putting a hand

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