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, smiling up

proudly down at his son. “He’s very

my baby’s

world will ever

that title for about…five more months,” Roger

with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and shakes his

letting it pass.

I ask, moving again to her

so,” she says, giving me a nod

of us begin

woman in dove- colored robes comes out of the

hesitate for a moment, going still at the sight of those robes

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

the bond and I exhale, skipping forward a

stay at Cora’s side.

is not the same situation we were in

different, and not every priestess we meet is going

of them, surely, actually serve

little and giving us a deep smile

– you are welcome

right on time.”

and then look back to the

ask. The priestess smiles warmly at me but Cora turns to me with a

“Can’t you feel her?”

and then, as I realize what she means that

– I bite

used up’ our bond

wolf and my gift so that I could save my child,

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

my head and work hard to give her a

“I’m glad you can feel her for

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

the priestess says, smiling around at our whole

let her gaze linger on the baby,

inside.”

so, as a group, we follow the priestess into my

everyone’s heart is pounding as much

is different than the ones that we’ve

was elegantly

is… cozy. The architecture

but you can tell that women live here and treat

benches by the windows,

the little worn stick broom tucked into a corner,

is my favorite temple of all –

middle of the large central room

dome, but instead

she opens it, she turns to us with a warm smile.

giving us a moment.

hair behind her ears and Roger comes to stand

his shoulders, his face very serious. He is, after all,

for the first time. I

baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from

Rafe quite close to me as we

grandmother. It feels

– and Sinclair has placed a warm hand on

Cora nods to the priestess who opens the door and leads

see her immediately, we all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the far end

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