Raising a Hero

She had only wanted to have a working marriage and a happy family. All of her efforts had been towards that goal. Despite that, her husband leaves her for another woman after the loss of her unborn child, and just as she starts to pick herself up, she dies in a car accident. But this isn't the end of her story. Her spirit is picked up by her brother. He happens to be a beginner god who needs help raising the hero who is supposed to save his fledgling world. Thinking he is offering her a long-sought-after opportunity to be a mother, she readily agrees, and he sends her down to his world with the gift of healing and a Methuselah grade body to aid her on her quest. She quickly finds her little boy and is overjoyed to have someone to love and baby at last. But this hero doesn't want her as his mother. He wants her as something else. Suggested for ages 14+. Raising a Hero is created by T.S. Lowe, an eGlobal Creative Publishing signed author.

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Chapter 143

I needed a distraction from the rancid smell of blood and bear intestines, so I answered, despite the squirm of my gut tightening.

"I did. They all died."

His knife, gently peeling the skin off the back legs, flinched.

"I, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't've..."

"It's fine," I said as lightly as I could to put him at ease. "They all died before they were born, either as miscarriages or stillbirths. I had four." I yanked a little too hard on a bone and got the oh-so-fun sensation of wet tendon and fat squeezing past my knuckles. "Uck."

After a few more quiet minutes of fur peeling, watched on by Mama Puff and her nearly grown Pufflets, Dulcet shifted around so we were working shoulder to shoulder in order to show me how to cut through the slipper connective tissue right.

"So...you had a husband?" he asked.

"Yep. He was crap. The same day I lost our fourth baby, he broke to me he was leaving with a girl he'd been seeing for a while."

"Why? I mean, not that I--it's just..."

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