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.

like he understands sometimes,” I say quietly,

down at

I say, leaning closer to kiss my baby’s

the world

about…five more months,” Roger calls to us,

chest with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and shakes his

letting it pass.

ready, Cora?” I ask, moving

says, giving me a nod and reaching

five of us

dove- colored

moment, going still at the sight of those

I saw themBut I feel Sinclair behind me, his

the bond and I exhale, skipping forward a

stay at Cora’s side.

This is…this is not the

we meet is going to try to

of them, surely, actually

woman says, bowing a little and giving us a

the Goddess – you are

right on time.”

smile at each other and then look

warmly at me but Cora turns to me with a

“Can’t you feel her?”

at Cora for a second and then, as I

here already – I bite my lip, feeling a

cannot feel her. I used up’ our bond

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

her mouth making a startled “o” of concern, but I

head and work hard to

say, squeezing her hand. “I’m glad you

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

priestess says, smiling around at our whole party and taking

on the baby, admiring

inside.”

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

everyone’s heart

is different than the ones that we’ve been in

desert temple was elegantly sparse,

is… cozy. The

can tell that women live here and treat

the windows, at

worn stick broom

temple of all –

in the middle of the

instead leads

she opens it, she turns to us

us a moment.

her ears and Roger comes to stand

very serious. He

the first time. I smile

for the baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle

I do it, but somehow I want Rafe quite close to

grandmother. It feels

– and Sinclair has placed a warm

priestess who

beautiful Goddess, standing at the far end

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