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 say quietly, smiling up at

down at his son. “He’s very

my baby’s

baby the world

about…five more months,” Roger calls

his chest with a smirk. Sinclair

letting it pass.

Cora?” I ask, moving again to

think so,” she says, giving me a nod and reaching for my hand. I give it,

another deep breath, the five of us begin to walk towards

a woman in dove- colored robes comes out

hesitate for a moment, going still at

the last time I saw themBut I feel Sinclair behind me, his hand

bond and I exhale, skipping forward

stay at Cora’s side.

not the same

different, and not every priestess we meet is going

Some of them, surely, actually serve my

and giving us a deep smile

– you are welcome here.

right on time.”

each other and then look back to the

me but Cora turns to me with

“Can’t you feel her?”

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

our mother here already – I bite my

used up’ our bond – used the magic

so that I could

making a startled “o” of concern, but I

and work hard to

say, squeezing her hand. “I’m glad you

to me, sympathetic, and then we both turn back to the

at our

gaze linger on the baby, admiring him. “Please, do

inside.”

as a group, we follow the priestess

everyone’s heart is pounding as much as

different than the ones that we’ve been

was elegantly sparse, and the city temple

cozy. The architecture is still bright

women live here

padded benches by the windows, at the well-loved

and the little worn stick broom tucked into a

my favorite temple of all – and that I

priestess does not pause in the middle of the

instead leads

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

us

hair behind her ears and Roger comes

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

mate’s mother as such for the first

the baby, who Sinclair helps

do it, but somehow I want Rafe quite close to

It

we’re all ready – and Sinclair

who

her immediately, we all doThe beautiful Goddess, standing at the far end of the room, glowing with

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