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

proudly down at his son. “He’s very

closer to kiss my baby’s

world will

keep that title for about…five more months,” Roger calls

smirk. Sinclair just laughs and

letting it pass.

ask, moving again to her

a nod and reaching for

the five of us

dove- colored robes comes out of

going still at the sight of

I feel Sinclair behind me, his hand warm against my back,

the bond and

stay at Cora’s side.

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

and not every priestess we meet is

them, surely,

little and giving us a deep

Goddess – you

right on time.”

each other and then look back to

warmly at me but Cora

“Can’t you feel her?”

then,

our mother here already – I bite my lip, feeling

used up’ our bond – used the magic of

so that I could save my child, and Cora,

suddenly, her mouth making a startled

and work hard to

“I’m glad

then we both turn back to

says, smiling around at our whole party and

on the

inside.”

follow the priestess into my mother’s temple. And as

I wonder if everyone’s heart is

than the ones that we’ve been

temple was elegantly sparse, and

impressive, this one is… cozy. The architecture is

women live here and treat it as a home. As I

padded benches by the windows, at the well-loved books

stick broom tucked

temple of all – and

not pause in the middle of the large central room of

but instead leads us across it to

she turns to us with a warm

she asks, giving us

her hair behind her ears and Roger comes

shoulders, his face very serious.

mate’s mother as such for the first

who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the

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

It feels

once we’re all ready – and Sinclair has

the priestess who

doThe beautiful Goddess, standing

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