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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“(

I don’t know how I know it but…well, somehow, I get the

Honestly, it never

freaked out, suddenly. We’re both very aware that there’s magic in the world, but sometimes when you’re confronted with it so blatantly it can

to say that words that the priestess taught

pool. “We bring to you, tonight, this

your grace,” Roger continues, his own resonant voice sending shivers down my spine. The light coming off the pool brightens – slower this time, though, as

moon itself, beaming brilliantly down on

she is here, now, with us

certainly curious. I put my hands out for him and this time Roger does hand him to me, letting me take the baby and unwrap his

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

and Dominic, have asked us to bring him here to dedicate him to you. We do so in their

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

afraid, but Roger brings a quick hand to my

the baby back,” he says, peering into the white light of the moon, likewise trying to

my arms trembling a

like watching a movie projected into smoke in the air. Instead, it’s…felt as much as

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, though, and I see him again with that girl – though she’s older now too – laughing. And though I know there’s no reason for me to know it, I sense –

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slowly lifts to place on the girl’s head as well. She smiles up at him

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