Chapter 583: Council Rules

I spent the next two heartbeats looking back and forth between my mother and my grandmother, mouth opening and closing as I tried to comprehend the stupidest thing I'd heard in my entire life.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Okay, I didn't mean to jump on Mom like that, I really didn't. But it came out, boy did it ever, in absolute shock.

I could have been more tactful, I know that now. But I really think, no matter how I called her an idiot, Mom's reaction would have been the same.

The tell-tale mask of cold rose, her whole body rigid.

Yup, went too far this time, Syd.

Every time.

"Dinner is over." Mom swept from the table, returning to her desk, back to us. "Return to your family, Coven Leader, and leave this matter to me."

I hated it-hated it so much-when she pulled the Council Leader bullcrap on me. My mind reached out for hers, to connect. Met empty blankness.

Before blue fire crackled over my mind and sent me staggering back with a cry of pain.

"How dare you?" Mom st