Chapter 206: Challenge Given

This was it. I couldn't believe she'd finally done it. Odette stood there, shaking violently, her magical mask wavering between the middle aged woman she presented to the public and the withered, furious old crone she really was. Gram was actually beaming in joy, though I knew that happiness was fed on pure revenge.

"Challenging another coven leader is against our laws." Mom's magic rippled around her, branches and swirls winding through her clothing, her hair. She was prepared, I could feel it, the humming connection between she and I, and the rest of the coven loud and clear.

Against the law or not, she would fight. And be in the right.

Odette knew it. Held back because of it. She'd spoken the words, but no action had been taken. This could still end peacefully. Probably wouldn't, but there it was.

Until Gram decided to do some more prodding.

"You're as weak as your sister," she said with that same grin on her face, a hint of her old madness in her eyes. "I manipulated her too,