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.

I say quietly, smiling

down at his son. “He’s very

my baby’s

world will ever

for about…five more months,”

over his chest with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs

letting it pass.

I ask, moving again to

she says, giving me a nod and reaching for my

breath, the five of us begin to

in dove- colored

moment, going still at the sight of those

Sinclair behind me, his hand warm against my

of comfort comes down the bond and

stay at Cora’s side.

he’s right. This is…this is not the same

meet is going to try

of them, surely, actually serve

says, bowing a little and giving us

Goddess – you are welcome here.

right on time.”

I smile at each other and then look back to the woman. “Is

me but Cora turns to me

“Can’t you feel her?”

at Cora for a second and then,

mother here already – I bite my lip,

up’ our

wolf and my gift so that I could

suddenly, her mouth making a

my head and work hard to give her a

hand. “I’m glad you can feel her for

me, sympathetic, and then we both turn back

around at our whole

her gaze linger on the baby, admiring him.

inside.”

as a group, we follow the priestess into my mother’s temple. And

everyone’s heart is pounding as much as

inside, is different than the ones that

desert temple was elegantly sparse, and the city

cozy. The architecture is

but you can tell that women live here and treat it as

benches by the windows, at the

stick broom tucked

that this is my favorite temple of all – and that I

middle of

dome, but instead leads us across it to a

it, she turns to us with a warm smile. “Are

she asks, giving us a moment.

behind her ears and Roger comes

face very serious. He is, after all,

mate’s mother as such for the first time.

for the baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the carrier.

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

grandmother. It feels

Sinclair has placed a

nods to the priestess who opens the door

standing at the far end of the

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