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, smiling up

says, grinning proudly down

my baby’s forehead. “Yes, he is.

world will ever see

about…five more months,” Roger calls to

chest with a smirk. Sinclair

letting it pass.

Cora?” I ask,

a nod and reaching for

deep breath, the five of us begin

in dove- colored

moment, going still at the sight of those

behind me, his hand warm against my back,

down the bond and I exhale,

stay at Cora’s side.

This is…this is not the same situation we

not every priestess we meet is going

of them, surely, actually

the woman says, bowing a little and giving us a deep smile

Goddess – you are welcome here. And

right on time.”

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

at me but Cora turns to me with a

“Can’t you feel her?”

at Cora for a second and then, as I realize what she means that

– I bite my lip,

used up’ our bond – used the magic of it

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

mouth making a startled “o”

head and work hard

squeezing her hand. “I’m glad

me, sympathetic, and then we both turn back

smiling around at our

let her gaze linger on the baby, admiring

inside.”

so, as a group, we follow the priestess into my mother’s

if everyone’s heart

different than the ones that

the desert temple was elegantly sparse, and the city temple

cozy. The architecture is still

can tell that women live here and treat it as a

the windows, at the well-loved books

the little worn stick broom tucked

my favorite temple of all – and

pause in the middle of

instead

she turns

us a moment.

her ears and Roger comes

his face very serious. He is, after all,

to his mate’s mother as such for the first time. I smile at

I reach for the baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the carrier. I

want Rafe quite close

It feels

ready – and Sinclair has placed a warm hand on

nods to the priestess who

see her immediately, we all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing

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