Chapter 651: Unhappy Endings

Fairy tale endings are highly overrated.

At least, that's what I kept telling myself so I wouldn't feel so crappy about my life.

Demetrius returned, no sign of Alison. And the Brotherhood seemed to have gone to ground. I really hoped I did some major damage to Belaisle, both with the freeing of the Sidhe and by taking back the power of the Council. And Mom. He had to have been pouring a ton of energy into my mother.

Sucked to be him.

Not to mention all the magic Ameline stole. I had no doubt Belaisle would simply drain some of his own people to replace it, but it had to rankle.

Rankling was good.

Mind you, I wished the Brotherhood were out in the open instead of scurrying around like cockroaches looking for scraps at 3AM.

Gross.

At least with the Council's approval to act, I could start hunting them down and squashing them. That would be awesome.

I just had to find them first.

I had the sheet of paper Charlotte left me translated by a sweet older Russian woman who ran the loc