Page 124 of Rescued

Something changed in the older woman’s face—it was like watching the sun break through the clouds, Davrik thought.

“Don’t you ‘Mrs. Martin’ me, young lady! Come here!” Mother Maya hurried out of the door and down the front steps with her arms held wide.

“Mom!” Sonya rushed into the waiting arms and both women started crying.

“You came back to me! My baby came back!” Mother Maya squeezed Sonya tight as tears poured from her eyes.

“I’m not really her—that is, I…I am her, but from…from another universe,” Sonya explained, through her own sobs.

“And in that universe, I’m the one who died—is that right?” Mother Maya pulled back and looked at her.

“My whole family died,” Sonya admitted in a low voice. “I…I miss them so much. I miss you…Mom.”

“Oh, child—I missed you too.” And then they were hugging and crying again. “You’re mine—my own baby. I don’t care what universe you came from!” Mother Maya declared. “You call me Mom and you come to see me every chance you get! Now, come in the house—I made your favorite.”

“Strawberry lemonade?” Sonya asked, pulling back from the hug and swiping at her streaming eyes.

“Of course! And peanut butter cookies to go with it.” Mother Maya looped an arm around her new daughter’s waist and urged her into the house. She threw a look over her shoulder at Davrik and nodded at him. “You come too—you brought my baby back to me. I knew there was a reason you’re my favorite Son-in-law.”

Davrik had to blink back tears of his own as he followed the woman he loved and her new mother into the neat little house. He had never felt so grateful to the Goddess before or more blessed.

The love of his life, the other half of his soul had been restored to him. And he never intended to let her go again.

THE END?