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.

I

down

closer to kiss my baby’s forehead.

the world

keep that title for about…five more months,”

a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and shakes his

letting it pass.

Cora?” I ask, moving again

so,” she says, giving me a nod and

breath, the five of us

a woman in dove- colored robes comes out of the

for a moment, going still at the sight of

Sinclair behind me,

bond and I exhale, skipping forward

stay at Cora’s side.

is not the same

every priestess we meet is going

surely,

woman says, bowing a little and giving

of the Goddess – you are welcome here. And

right on time.”

and I smile at each other and then look back to the woman. “Is

smiles warmly at me but

“Can’t you feel her?”

second and then, as I realize what she means

here already – I bite my lip, feeling a very deep

I cannot feel her. I used up’ our bond – used

and my gift so that I could save my child,

a startled “o” of concern, but I

my head and work hard

hand. “I’m glad you can feel

nods to me, sympathetic, and then we both

around at our whole party

to let her gaze linger on the baby, admiring

inside.”

group, we follow the priestess into my

I wonder if everyone’s heart is pounding

the ones that

desert temple was elegantly

cozy. The architecture is still

women live here and treat it as a home.

the

and the little worn stick broom tucked

temple of all – and that I quite

in the middle of the large central room of

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

Before she opens it, she turns to

she asks, giving us

her ears and

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

such for the first time.

reach for the baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the

I want Rafe quite close to me as we

It

– and Sinclair

the priestess who opens the door and leads

all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the

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