Alpha Dom and His Human Surrogate

Chapter 304 – The Goddess’s Light

Cora

I’m a little out of breath when I finally catch up with Roger and Rafe, having had to work hard to keep up with his long wolf stride.

“Rude,” I say when I finally come to a stop next to them. “You couldn’t have waited for me?”

“I’m being rude?” Roger says, raising his eyebrows at me in disbelief. “Cora, you’ve been nothing but unpleasant since the moment we stepped into the forest –”

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I open my mouth with a little squeak of protest but Roger just rolls his eyes and ignores me, going on anyway. “This is supposed to be a sacred experience for Rafe and for us and you’ve done nothing but moan and complain. So yeah, forgive me if I wanted to get away for a moment and concentrate on the magic of this place

“Oh whatever,” I mumble, reaching out my arms so that he can hand me the baby.

“No

from you

way,” Roger retorts, holding the baby closer to his chest and turning a little away from me. “You don’t get to hold the baby now that we’re at the pool

“Yes I do!” I cry, “the priestess gave him to me!”

“I’m his godparent just as much as you are

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Roger and I turn to it, surprised, both of our mouths falling open. I don’t know how I know it but…well, somehow, I get the sense that the pool – or whatever magic is in it – is irritated with

Honestly, it never occurred to me that my behavior with

then, united anew at being…well, a little freaked out, suddenly. We’re both very aware that there’s magic in the world, but

him, and start to say that words that the priestess taught us as part

voice ring out across the smooth surface of the silver pool. “We bring to you, tonight,

and bring him into the spirit of your grace,” Roger continues, his own

the sight of the full moon itself, beaming

of the moment. Because she is here, now, with us – ready to meet her grandchild. I can

time Roger does hand him to me, letting me take the baby and unwrap his swaddling blanket. Then,

Rafe looking up into the sky, to see the light surrounding him as it falls from the

Dominic, have asked us to bring him here to dedicate him to you.

world and to all the magic within it. I open my

suddenly afraid, but Roger brings a

moon,

my arms trembling a little, and watch the

not like watching a movie projected into smoke in the air. Instead, it’s…felt as much as it is seen, communicated to our hearts and minds as much as our

tall, with warm green eyes bending down to take the hand of a dark–haired little girl who has fallen to the ground, helping her up and brushing the tears from her face. Then, I see him again – older, but still young.- running across a battlefield, fear on his face but courage in every line of his limbs as he pushes himself to do what is right. We’re passed that quite quickly,

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the girl’s head as well. She smiles up at him with such love in her eyes and then the door to the room

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and more of their children – and a light–haired boy I don’t know, just about Rafe’s age- and more children, so many