Chapter 53

Calyx

I just stared at her. Her words replaying in my head. She wanted to help me even after everything she wanted … me? I frowned slightly, looking down at my hands. “There is something I still need to tell you.” It’s not the kind of thing you say at a serious time like this. Or maybe it is. I just honestly don’t know how everything will go between us. Or with the rest of my coven. And if this all goes to shit, I want her to know the truth.

“Oh?” she ask my gaze seeking those warm dark brown eyes, her flawless mocha skin that glows and those full pouty red lips that have had me by the balls the second she walked into that inn wearing rags. I wanted her. I run my hands back through my hair. “I, the night we met. I knew there was something about you. When I gave you that tonic to tell me what happened, I realised you were just like me. Like us. You pushed for power and strength and it had been ripped away from you like it had us. You had nothing and we - my coven are controlled by the