Accidental Surrogate for Alpha novel Chapter 488

Chapter 488- A Powerful Gift

Ella

Cora wipes at her face with the palms of her hands. “I’m sorry,” she says. “I just…I kind of flipped out.”

“The vision wasn’t bad,” I say, “I promise it wasn’t. And we get it – if you came out of the baptism ceremony looking like you’d jumped into the pool? I’d have freaked out too!”

“Yeah, well,” she murmurs, glancing down at my stomach, “maybe I’ll just do that out of spite in six months, see how you like it.”

I laugh then, the noise surprising me, and Cora’s face breaks into a tentative smile.

“There’s my girl,” Roger murmurs, lifting a hand to wipe at the last of her tears.

“I think we need to hear all of it,” Cora says, nodding to Sinclair and then to me. “Please. Just…maybe just for this baby, our first.”

“Okay,” I whisper, nodding. And then Sinclair and I tell her all of it – of all the wonderful things we saw for Rafe as he grows up, and his happiness with his cousins. And then we tell of the darkness we saw, and the incredible way he moved through it – of the challenge clearly laid out for him in his future.

“Wow,” Roger says, a little baffled as he looks down at his baby. “I have…I have no way of really comprehending what any of that means,” he murmurs.

“It was difficult to know what we were seeing,” Sinclair replies, looking down at me for confirmation. I nod. “Then, Ella got really pissed. That’s when she jumped into the pool.”

“What?!” Cora gasps.

I give a shrug. “I wasn’t going to let her end the vision there. So…we kind of got into a fight, and then she gave me the last image – of Jesse old and happy, so that I’d go away.”

Cora bursts into laughter then, looking down at her little baby. “We chose the right godmother for you, baby,” she sighs. “Always getting her money’s worth.”

“Damn straight,” I say looking up at Sinclair with a very clear told-you-so expression on my face. “Only the full baptism experience for my baby nephew.”

“So, what do you think it means?” Roger asks, looking between us.

“I don’t know,” I reply, resting my hand on my chin and gazing at the baby, wondering about his very strange and very interesting future. “He’s going to be very close with Rafe and with the new baby girl. And the way he handled a dagger, and the way he was dressed – I think he’s going to be a warrior.”

“That fits,” Cora sighs, looking up at me with a little guilt in her eyes. “We saw Rafe was going to be a warrior too. So, at least they’ll have each other.”

A little anxiety turns in me at that, but I just nod, tucking the information away. I mean, considering who his dad is? I can’t say that I’m surprised. But I can think about how I feel about it another day.

“I think it’s more than that, though,” I murmur. “Something mom said

Cora sighs, nodding too. “Just giving her daughters extreme anxiety,” she mutters, sighing and running a hand over Jesse’s sleeping heads.

“I think that’s probably all moms,” I say, standing up and leaning against my mate, who pulls me tight against him. “But…I mean, I think it’s going to turn out okay.”

“Why do you say that?” Cora asks, looking up at me again, I think hoping for another little hint from mom, who of course knows more than we do.

“I just have faith,” I say, letting my lips turn up into a smile. “These kids – they’re going to be good eggs and we’re going to love them a lot. If they end up with the fate of the world in their hands?” I look up at my mate and shrug. “Then I think the world’s got a pretty good shot.”

Sinclair smiles at me, leaning down to give me a little kiss before we turn back to Cora and Roger.

“You guys coming downstairs?” I ask, nodding towards the door, eager to get to Rafe and give him a snuggle and whisper to him how loved he is if he can’t hear me. even

“In a minute,” Cora replies, giving me a tentative smile that has a great deal of warmth behind it. Because even if she is still spooked a bit – I know she agrees with me. Our kids are going to be great – we just have to have faith in them.

“We’ll be waiting,” Sinclair says, giving them a steady nod, and together we let the new parents have a minute alone with their son.