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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falling open. I don’t know how I know it but…well, somehow, I get the sense that the pool

Honestly, it never occurred to me

own apology, coming closer to the edge. We look at each other, then, united anew at being…well, a little freaked out, suddenly. We’re both

deep breath, then, nodding to him, and start to say that words that

begin, letting my voice ring out across the smooth surface of the silver pool. “We bring to you, tonight, this child, so that he may begin to know you.”

to show him your light, and in doing so, let you see him and bring him into the spirit of your grace,” Roger continues, his own resonant voice sending shivers down my spine. The light coming off the pool brightens

itself, beaming brilliantly down on us from above. Hey, mom,

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

him and this time Roger does hand him to me, letting me take the baby and unwrap his swaddling blanket. Then, when he’s free of it, Roger and I slowly walk as close as we can to the edge of the pool and hold the baby out over

see Rafe looking up into the sky, to see the light surrounding him as it falls from the moon above and reflects upwards from the mirrored

“His parents, Ella and Dominic, have asked

introducing the child to the world and to all the magic within it. I open my mouth to say something, to tell Roger that

suddenly afraid, but Roger brings a

into the white light of the moon, likewise trying to make it out. “If you do, we won’t be able

holding the baby out, my arms trembling a

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

his face but courage in every

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his hands, which he slowly lifts to place on the girl’s head as well. She

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light–haired boy I