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.

he understands sometimes,” I say quietly, smiling

down at his son. “He’s very

my

baby the world will ever

title for about…five more months,” Roger calls

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

letting it pass.

ask, moving

me a nod and reaching for my

of us begin to walk towards the temple.

colored

for a moment, going still

time I saw themBut I feel Sinclair behind me,

down the bond and

stay at Cora’s side.

not the same situation we

every priestess we meet is going

of them, surely, actually serve my

bowing a little and giving us a deep smile

the Goddess – you are

right on time.”

each other and then look back to

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

“Can’t you feel her?”

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

bite my lip, feeling a very deep

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

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

mouth making a startled “o”

hard to

“I’m glad you

sympathetic, and then we both turn back

says, smiling around at

let her gaze linger on the baby, admiring him.

inside.”

as a group, we follow the

if everyone’s heart is pounding as much as

is different than the ones that

desert temple was elegantly sparse, and

this one is… cozy. The architecture is still bright

live here

padded benches by the windows, at the

into alcoves and the little worn stick broom tucked into a corner,

this is my favorite temple of all – and

not pause in the middle of the large central

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

she turns to us with a warm

giving us a

behind her ears and Roger comes to stand

face very serious. He is, after all,

as such for the first time. I smile

for the baby, who Sinclair

somehow I want Rafe quite close to me as

It

– and Sinclair has placed a

to the priestess who opens the

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

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