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

down at his son. “He’s very

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

world

keep that title for about…five

chest with a smirk. Sinclair just

letting it pass.

I ask, moving

me a nod

of us begin to walk towards the

woman in dove- colored

for a moment, going still at the sight of those robes

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

comes down the bond and

stay at Cora’s side.

is…this is not the

we meet is

of them, surely,

woman says, bowing a little and giving us

Goddess – you are welcome

right on time.”

other and then look back to the

me but Cora turns to me with

“Can’t you feel her?”

and then, as I realize what she means that she

I bite my lip, feeling a

up’ our bond –

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

a startled “o” of concern, but

hard to give her

her hand. “I’m glad

then we

smiling around at

to let her gaze linger on the

inside.”

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

everyone’s heart

is different than the ones that we’ve

elegantly sparse, and the

one is… cozy. The

live here and treat it as

the windows, at the well-loved books

stick broom tucked into a corner,

temple of all – and that I quite like it

does not pause in the middle of the large central room of

instead

opens it, she turns

us a

her hair behind her ears and Roger comes to

serious. He is,

the first

reach for the baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the carrier. I

why I do it, but somehow I want Rafe quite close to me as we go to

It

and Sinclair has placed a warm hand on

who opens the door and leads

we all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255