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

proudly down

to kiss my baby’s forehead. “Yes, he is. The

baby the world will

for about…five

arms over his chest with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and shakes his

letting it pass.

ask, moving again

giving me a nod

the five of us begin to walk towards the temple. As

a woman in dove- colored robes comes out of

a moment, going still at the sight of those

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

and

stay at Cora’s side.

not the same situation we were

meet is going to try to take

of them, surely,

the woman says, bowing a little and giving us a

you are welcome here. And

right on time.”

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

me

“Can’t you feel her?”

and then, as I realize what she means that

our mother here already – I bite

our bond – used the magic of

gift so that I could

very suddenly, her mouth making a startled

my head and work hard to

squeezing her hand. “I’m glad you can feel her

sympathetic, and then we

at

her gaze linger on the baby, admiring

inside.”

as a group, we follow the priestess into

if everyone’s heart is pounding as much

than the ones that we’ve been

temple was elegantly sparse, and the city

this one is… cozy. The architecture

but you can tell that women live here and treat it as a home. As I

padded benches by the windows,

worn stick broom tucked into a

that this is my favorite temple of

pause in the middle of the

beneath the dome, but instead leads us across it to a

Before she opens it, she turns to us

giving us

her ears and Roger comes to stand behind

very serious. He is,

for the first

the baby, who Sinclair helps me

I want Rafe

It

Sinclair has placed a warm

the priestess who opens

all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the

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