Surrogate For Alpha Dom

Chapter 390

Chapter 390:The Temple

Ella

It is, indeed, a long climb. Cora and I are panting by the time we get to the top,

and even though Sinclair took Rafe from me halfway through the hike I have to

take a moment to catch my break when we pull ourselves up to the final level.

Roger has the indecency to look a little smug about the fact that he barely looks

winded and Cora gives him a little shove on the shoulder as she works to take a

few deep breaths and wipe the sweat from her brow.

Even as I work to bring my heartrate back down, I absolutely marvel at the sight

before me.

The Goddess’ temple, like the one in the city, is built completely with white

marble. But unlike the one in the city, this one looks…ancient. Vines grow in

ropes all over it, looking almost as if the structure is part of the forest itself,

having grown up organically from it. The temple is tall and wide, the pillars in

front drawing my eyes upward to the slanted roof which curls into a dome. At the

very peak of the dome is a golden crescent moon, reaching up towards the sky,

glinting in the bright sunlight.

“Wow,” Cora says, standing straight next to me and likewise marveling at the

temple. “Mom has some… impressive property.”

“I know, right?” I mutter back, crossing my arms and shaking my head. If

someone had told me, when I was a little girl sleeping in my creaky little orphan

bed, that my mom lived here…

Well. I probably would have believed them.

But I was a very imaginative child.

“Um,” Roger says, looking anxiously at Cora. “Shall we?”

I smile at him, seeing that he’s eager to move on but also that he wants to give

her room to process this experience. It’s more intense for her than it is for him,

and I think that it’s very sweet that he realizes this. Roger really has come leaps

and bounds as a person from when I first met him.

Sinclair comes to stand next to me and I grin at him and then turn to my baby,

taking his hands and speaking to him quietly, asking him how he likes it here

and if he’s ready to meet his granny for real this time. Rafe claps and gurgles

like he really is excited.

sometimes,” I say quietly,

down at his

my baby’s forehead. “Yes, he is.

baby the world will

for about…five more months,”

a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and shakes

letting it pass.

ready, Cora?” I ask, moving again

me a nod

five of us begin to walk towards the temple.

dove- colored robes comes out of

still at the

Sinclair behind

down the bond and I exhale, skipping forward

stay at Cora’s side.

right. This is…this is not the same situation we

we meet is going to try to take

of them, surely,

a little and giving us a deep smile

“Daughters of the Goddess – you are welcome here.

right on time.”

at each other and then look back to the

at me but Cora turns to

“Can’t you feel her?”

at Cora for a second and then,

here already – I bite my lip, feeling a very deep

I cannot feel her. I used up’ our bond –

and my gift so that I could save my child,

her mouth making a

my head and work hard to

“I’m glad you can feel her for

sympathetic, and then we

says, smiling around at our whole

linger on the baby, admiring

inside.”

we follow the priestess into my

heart is pounding

the

elegantly sparse, and the

this one is… cozy. The architecture

women live here and treat it

the windows, at the well-loved

the little worn stick broom tucked into a corner,

this is my favorite temple of all – and that I

priestess does not pause in the middle

the dome, but instead leads us across it to

she opens it, she turns to

she asks, giving us

her hair behind her ears and Roger comes to

serious. He is, after all,

such for the first time. I smile at

for the baby, who Sinclair helps

somehow I want Rafe quite close to me as we go to

grandmother. It feels

Sinclair has

to the priestess who opens the

doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at

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