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 up

proudly down

I say, leaning closer to kiss my baby’s

baby the world will ever

can keep that title for about…five more months,” Roger

with a smirk. Sinclair

letting it pass.

I ask,

me a nod and reaching for my hand. I give it,

of us begin to walk towards the temple.

a woman in dove- colored robes comes out

still

behind me, his

the bond and I exhale, skipping forward

stay at Cora’s side.

not the same situation we

every priestess we meet is

Some of them, surely, actually

little and giving us

“Daughters of the Goddess – you are

right on time.”

and then look back to the woman. “Is

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

“Can’t you feel her?”

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

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

I used up’ our bond – used the magic of

I could save my child, and Cora, and

mouth making a startled “o” of concern, but I

hard to give her a

hand. “I’m glad you can feel her for both of

to me, sympathetic, and then we both

smiling around at our whole

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

inside.”

follow the priestess into my mother’s temple. And

if everyone’s heart is

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

was elegantly sparse,

this one is… cozy. The architecture is still bright

but you can tell that women live here and treat

by the windows, at the

and the little worn stick broom tucked into a corner,

that this is my favorite temple of all – and that I quite

does not pause in the middle of the

instead leads us across it to a door

she opens it, she turns to us with a

us a moment. to

hair behind her ears and Roger comes to

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

as such for the first

Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the carrier. I

want Rafe quite close to

It feels

once we’re all ready – and Sinclair has placed a warm hand on

who opens

all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the far end

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