#Chapter 487- 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.
“”Thank you,” I breathe, my eyes turned up now towards the sky, the tension falling from my shoulders. ”
Thank you.”
“Trust them,” the Goddess says, her words even fainter now than they were before. “Even if you don’t trust this world, or me, trust them.”
And I nod, understanding, committing to it.
And suddenly, whatever magic was here lifts, and she’s gone.
The light from the pool fades until it’s just…a lake, or a pond again.
“What…what just happened?” Sinclair asks, staring down at me with wide eyes.
“Did you see?” I ask, desperate to know.
“See what?” he asks, shaking his head at me. “See you plunge into the pond yelling at the sky like a literal lunatic!?”
“See the last vision!” I explain, and when he continues to stare at me I let out a deep breath. “Okay. Guess that one was just for me.”
“She showed you more!?”
I nod slowly. “She knew I was upset when the vision ended with Jesse in darkness. So, she showed me him as an old man, holding a tiny child.”
My mate scowls at me and then glances up at the moon, as if he wants to get mad now but he’s a little too scared of her for blasphemy. “Well, that hardly seems fair,” he murmurs. ” Why do you get extra visions?”
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