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,

grinning proudly down at his

say, leaning closer to kiss my baby’s forehead. “Yes, he is.

world will ever

that title for about…five

chest with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and

letting it pass.

ask,

think so,” she says, giving me a nod and reaching

another deep breath, the five of us begin

woman in dove- colored

for a moment, going still at the sight

behind me, his hand

bond and I exhale, skipping forward a little

stay at Cora’s side.

he’s right. This is…this is not the same

not every priestess we meet is going to

surely, actually serve my

says, bowing a little and giving us

– you are

right on time.”

and then look back to the woman. “Is

warmly at me but Cora turns to

“Can’t you feel her?”

then, as I

here already – I bite my lip, feeling a

cannot feel her. I used up’ our bond – used the magic of

so that I could

her mouth making a startled “o” of concern,

head and work hard to give her

“I’m glad you can feel

me, sympathetic, and then we

priestess says, smiling around at our whole party

let her gaze linger on the baby, admiring him. “Please, do

inside.”

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

everyone’s heart is pounding

different than the ones that we’ve been

the desert temple was elegantly sparse, and

is… cozy. The architecture is still

but you can tell that women live here and treat

padded benches by the

worn stick broom

temple of all – and that I quite like it

priestess does not pause in the middle of the

beneath the dome, but instead

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

giving us a moment.

behind her ears

very serious. He is, after all, about to

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

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

why I do it, but somehow I want Rafe quite close to me as we go to

grandmother. It feels

all ready – and Sinclair has placed a warm hand on

priestess who opens the door and leads

Goddess, standing at the far end of the room,

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