The Mystical Attraction of Alpha

Chapter 389: 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

likes it

and gurgles like he really

I

down at his son “He’s very

baby’s forehead “Yes, he is. The most clever

that title for about…five more months,” Roger calls to us,

chest with a smirk.

laughs and shakes his

ask, moving again

it, and, with another deep. breath, the five of us

out

a moment, going still at the sight of

last time I saw them

warm against my back, and then a little pulse of comfort. comes down the bond and I exhale, skipping forward a little to stay

is…this is not the same situation we were in before. This is

is going to try to take my baby

serve my mother.

bowing a little and giving us a deep smile as we approach.

you are welcome here. And you are right on

then look back to the

me but Cora turns to me with a frown.

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I realize what she means that she can feel

lip,

—

her. I used up our bond used the magic of it to unbind

child, and Cora, and my mate. Cora realizes this

“o” of concern, but I just shake my head and work hard to

smile

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

nods to me, sympathetic, and then we both tum back to the

our whole party and taking a moment to

on the baby, admiring him “Please, do come inside

mother’s temple And

you can tell that women live here and treat it as a home. As I look around at the padded benches by the windows, at the well-loved books neatly tucked into alcoves and the little worn stick broom tucked into

does not pause in the middle of the large central room of the temple, the space beneath the dome, but instead leads us across it to a door at the

be introduced to his mate’s mother as such for the first time. I smile at both of them as I reach for the baby, who Sinclair helps me unbuckle from the carrier. I don’t know why I do it, but somehow I want Rafe quite close to me as we go to see his grandmother. It

–

placed a warm hand on my shoulder – Cora nods to the priestess who opens the

immediately, we all

room, her eyes flashing over all of us but focusing on Cora. I can’t help the tears that well in my eyes when I see

as I

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