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

grinning proudly down

to kiss my baby’s forehead. “Yes, he

baby the world will ever see

can keep that title for about…five more

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

letting it pass.

Cora?” I ask, moving

nod and

us begin to

a woman in dove- colored robes

moment, going still at the sight of

time I saw themBut I feel Sinclair behind me, his hand warm against my back, and

of comfort comes down the bond and I exhale, skipping

stay at Cora’s side.

right. This is…this is not the same

different, and not every priestess we meet is going

Some of them, surely, actually serve my

little and giving us a deep

you are welcome here. And

right on time.”

smile at each other and then look back to

me

“Can’t you feel her?”

for a second and then, as I realize

bite my lip, feeling a very

cannot feel her. I used up’ our bond –

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

mouth making a startled “o” of concern,

hard to give her a

hand. “I’m glad you can

then

priestess says, smiling around at our whole party and

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

inside.”

a group, we follow the priestess

everyone’s heart is pounding as

temple, inside, is different than the

was elegantly sparse, and the

is… cozy. The architecture is

live here and treat it as a

padded benches by the windows, at

little worn stick broom tucked into a

this is my favorite temple of all – and that

priestess does not pause in the middle of the large

dome, but instead

Before she opens it, she turns to us with a

us a moment.

her hair behind her ears

very serious. He is,

mate’s mother as such for the first

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

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

It

ready – and Sinclair has

who opens the door and leads

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

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