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

Sinclair says, grinning proudly down at his son.

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

world

keep that title for about…five more months,”

a smirk. Sinclair

letting it pass.

ready, Cora?” I ask,

a nod and reaching for

us begin to walk towards the temple. As

dove- colored robes comes

moment, going still at the sight of those

themBut I feel Sinclair behind me, his hand warm against my back, and then a

bond and I

stay at Cora’s side.

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

meet is going

them, surely,

says, bowing a little and giving us a deep

“Daughters of the Goddess – you are welcome

right on time.”

at each other and then look back to

priestess smiles warmly at me but Cora turns to me with

“Can’t you feel her?”

blink at Cora for a second and then,

our mother here already – I bite my lip,

used up’ our bond –

wolf and my gift so that I could

mouth making a startled

work hard to give her

“I’m glad you can feel her

then we both turn back to

the priestess says, smiling around at our

her gaze linger on the baby,

inside.”

the priestess into my

if everyone’s heart is pounding

is different than the ones that we’ve been in

desert temple was elegantly sparse,

and impressive, this one is… cozy. The architecture is

here and treat it

at the padded benches by the windows, at the well-loved books

stick broom tucked into a

my favorite temple of all – and that I quite like it

not pause in the middle of the

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

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

us

her hair behind her ears and Roger comes to stand

his shoulders, his face very serious. He is, after

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

the baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the

I want Rafe quite close to me as we

grandmother. It feels

and Sinclair has placed a

– Cora nods to the priestess who opens the door and leads us

Goddess, standing at

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