Author: Aileen Erin
Category: Paranormal
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After that, I gave up on sleeping around five in the morning, and spent the rest of the time thinking about what I was going to do.
I had a plan in place and breakfast cooked by the time Claudia came down. I just had to convince her to go along with it.
As soon as Claudia was on her second cup of coffee, I decided it was time. “I want to go to the schoolhouse today. It’s the best place to meet people.”
Claudia set her mug down. “Luciana said you weren’t allowed.”
I gave her a stare that said I-really-don’t-give-a-fuck.
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“She’s not going to like it, and more importantly, I don’t think anyone’s going to be friendly. Not in that setting.”
“I have to try. Otherwise, I say screw the whole coven, let’s grab who we can and run.”
She looked at the ceiling for a second, and I imagined her praying for patience. “There’s a lesson in an hour. I guess we could say that you need to learn whatever it is that they’re teaching. I’ll leave it up to you to figure out the rest.” Claudia took a dainty bite of egg.
I gulped down half a glass of orange juice as I tried to come up with how to ask my next question, but I didn’t see any easy way around it. “If this goes bad, then would you fight against me or for me?”
She set her fork down. “What do you mean?”
“I mean, say Luciana wants to fight regardless of anything we do. Whose side are you on? Can you fight against your own coven?”
She blew out a big breath. “In some ways being part of the coven is easier than having your pack bond and in other ways it’s harder.”
That gave me nothing. “How so?”
“Well, from what I hear, your pack bonds can be a bit on the invasive side. You can borrow power from each other, but you can also see too much of each other.”
Pretty spot on for someone who wasn’t in the pack. I’d used the pack’s power to help break Meredith’s spell, and I got a headful of Dastien’s emotions on a daily basis. “Yeah. So, the harder?”
She pushed her plate away. “I don’t have to obey an alpha like you do, but there are consequences for going against the coven. For trying to break away.”
“What kind of consequences?”
“I could lose myself. My soul. It could kill me.”
This was way more complicated than I’d thought. “Right. So, extreme measures have to be taken.” That made me wonder… “How did your mom get away?”
Claudia fidgeted a little.
It was probably rude for me to ask, but I had to. If my aunt could leave, then so could Claudia.
“I promised to stay and help Luciana if she’d let my mother go.”
“And your mom let you do that?”
“She didn’t know. I can enhance people’s abilities and Luciana would never say no to more power. I told her I’d stay, take the vow, and help her if my mom was allowed to leave.” I started to speak but she cut me off. “It was dumb, but my mom needed to go. If she didn’t, it was going to be bad. She and Luciana were fighting everyday and Luciana’s patience had run out. I was scared for her. So, I did it. And Raphael stayed to help me. He’s the only one that knows.”
That was a huge sacrifice she’d made for her mother. “So, what were you going to do? You can’t want to stay here.”
“And be her pawn? No. I don’t want to be here. I don’t know who I am or what I want, but it’s not this.” She met my gaze. “My plan was to find you. You were our only hope. If you can’t fix this, we’re all lost. And to some of the people in the coven—” she shrugged—“maybe that’s okay. They’re fine with what they’re doing. They think they’re right and that witches are better than both wolves and humans. Plus we have so much more reason to want revenge. The wolves were never persecuted like we were. We burned, and for some hiding here, it still chafes.”
“So what happens if you were to come with me? Stay with the pack?”
“I don’t think anything. At least not while you were alive. Luciana wouldn’t dare. And I’m pretty sure with your abilities, we could find a way to break the curse without the unfortunate side effects.”
Yeah. I didn’t want to try that unless it was really necessary. Those side effects were pretty extreme.
I stood to put my dishes in the sink and dropped it on the ground. I winced as it rattled, but didn’t break.