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.

he understands sometimes,” I

proudly down at his son.

kiss my baby’s forehead. “Yes, he

the world will ever

about…five more months,” Roger

over his chest with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and

letting it pass.

ask, moving

giving me a nod

deep breath, the five of us begin to walk towards

dove- colored robes comes out of

a moment, going still at the

Sinclair behind me, his hand warm against my back, and then

the bond and I exhale,

stay at Cora’s side.

is not the same situation we were in

is different, and not every priestess we meet

them, surely, actually

bowing a little and giving us

“Daughters of the Goddess – you are welcome

right on time.”

each other and then look back to the woman. “Is she

me but Cora turns to me with

“Can’t you feel her?”

second and then, as I realize what she means that

here already – I bite my lip, feeling a

our

I could save my child, and Cora, and my mate.

a startled “o” of concern, but

my head and work hard to

her hand. “I’m glad you

nods to me, sympathetic, and then we both turn back

says, smiling around at our whole

on the baby,

inside.”

the priestess into my

if everyone’s heart is pounding

temple, inside, is different than the

the desert temple was elegantly sparse, and the

cozy. The architecture is still bright

can tell that women live here and treat it

at the padded benches by the windows, at

little worn stick broom tucked into a corner, I

that this is my favorite temple of

priestess does not pause in the middle of the large central room

space beneath the dome, but instead

turns to

giving us a moment.

her ears and Roger comes

his face very serious. He

mate’s mother as such for the first

who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the carrier. I

Rafe quite close to

grandmother. It

once we’re all ready – and Sinclair has placed a

nods to the priestess who opens the door and

doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the

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