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

says, grinning proudly down

kiss my baby’s forehead. “Yes, he is.

baby the world will

keep that title for about…five more months,” Roger calls

with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and shakes his

letting it pass.

ask, moving again to her

giving me a nod

breath, the five of us begin to

woman in dove- colored

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

behind me,

comes down the bond and

stay at Cora’s side.

is not the

different, and not every priestess we meet is going to try

surely, actually serve my

says, bowing a little and giving us a

Goddess – you are

right on time.”

smile at each other and then

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

“Can’t you feel her?”

a second and then,

I bite my lip, feeling a

I cannot feel her. I used up’ our

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

making a startled “o” of concern, but

and work hard to

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

me, sympathetic, and then we

at our whole party and taking

on the baby, admiring

inside.”

the priestess into my mother’s temple.

everyone’s heart is pounding as much

than the ones that

elegantly sparse,

cozy. The architecture is still

but you can tell that women live here

the padded benches by the windows, at

worn stick

that this is my favorite temple of all – and that I quite like

pause in the middle

dome, but instead leads us across

she turns to us

giving us a

hair behind her ears and Roger

serious. He is,

for the first time. I smile at both of

reach for the baby, who Sinclair helps

want Rafe quite close to me as we go to

It feels

all ready – and Sinclair has placed

Cora nods to the priestess who

we all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the far end of the

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