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 say

Sinclair says, grinning proudly down

closer to kiss my baby’s forehead.

the world

that title for about…five

with a smirk. Sinclair just laughs and shakes his

letting it pass.

ready, Cora?” I ask, moving

says, giving me a nod and reaching for my hand.

five of us begin to

a woman in dove- colored

going still at the sight of those robes

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

bond and I exhale,

stay at Cora’s side.

not

not every priestess we meet

of them, surely, actually

bowing a little and giving

you are welcome here. And

right on time.”

then look

warmly at me but Cora

“Can’t you feel her?”

for a second and then, as I

bite my lip, feeling a

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

that I could save

mouth making a startled “o” of concern,

and work hard to give her

okay,” I say, squeezing her hand. “I’m glad you can feel her for both of

then we both turn back

priestess says, smiling around at

to let her gaze linger on the baby, admiring

inside.”

so, as a group, we follow the priestess into my mother’s temple.

if everyone’s heart

inside, is different than the ones that we’ve been

was elegantly sparse, and the city temple

is… cozy. The architecture is still

that women live here and treat it as

benches by the windows, at the

worn stick broom

my favorite temple of

priestess does not pause in the middle

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

it, she turns to us with a

asks, giving us

ears and Roger comes to stand behind

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

mother as such for the first

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

somehow I want Rafe quite close to

It

and Sinclair has placed a warm

– Cora nods to the priestess who opens the door

Goddess, standing at the far end of the

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