Thirty-five:Nora Connolly Nora didn’t know how long she was in the room by herself. What she did know was that she was starving. And weak. And she had tried connecting to Roman using that mate connection thing but she hadn’t gotten a single answer. Maybe she wasn’t even doing it right. Roman, she chanted in her mind, Roman, Roman, ROMAN…. Or maybe their connection wasn’t as strong as Roman had thought. Or he was ignoring her because she’d left. How stupid had she been? But he had promised that he’d help her get what she wanted. Revenge on the person that had killed her parents. And then, just as suddenly, he didn’t want anything to do with her doing that. “Roman, please….” She was crying out to no one. Merrick had trapped her. There was no getting out. He wanted to force her to marry him. Wanted a claim on powers that she didn’t even understand. If only her parents hadn’t died. If only her mom had told her that she was a witch. There w
Thirty-six:Roman Eliot “You are annoying.” This came from Ares. Roman glowered at him, then punched the punching bag that Ares was holding in place as they worked out in the gym. It had been days and they hadn’t heard back from Glinda yet. They couldn’t do anything about finding Nora or Winter because they had no idea where The Night Coven was yet. “You’re being annoying too,” Roman said, “you’re radiating anxiety like me.” “Yes, well,” Ares pulled away from the punching bag, “you’re bothering me about it. It’s not only your mate that was taken. And at least your mate actually acknowledges you as your mate. Mine refuses to have anything to do with me. Anyway, The Night Coven can’t be more powerful than your connection with Nora. Why can’t you use that to find them?” Roman pulled away from the punching bag. “I’ve tried. She’s not answering me. She told me Merrick was muscled…” Ares chuckled. “Are you jealous?”
Thirty-seven:Nora Connolly “Try it again.” Nora glared up at Glinda. She had no idea where they were, but it was somewhere with a pond. Glinda had taken her there with Winter, who was watching as Nora trained her. “You are asking me to make a wave,” said Nora, “with a pond.” “There are five-year-old witches that can do this,” said Glinda, “it’s not that difficult. You come from a long line of powerful witches. And if you intend on keeping The Night Coven in power against those werewolves, you need to make sure that you are able to access those powers. It isn’t just them that will be coming after you. Merrick has a lot of enemies in high places.” Nora crossed her arms over her chest. “I’m not going to be Merrick’s. I want nothing to do with him. Roman was the one that found me. Romans been doing everything he could to keep me safe.” “Are you sure about that?” Glinda asked. “What do you mean, am I sure about that?
Thirty-eight:Roman Eliot He tried to remember what he knew of his mom’s past. He knew that when she first found out she was his dad’s mate, she hadn’t bene happy about it. She’d been in love with someone else. He also knew that she came from some place in upstate New York and that her family hadn’t approved of the whole thing which was why they hadn’t seen them in ages. He knew his mother. But at the same time, he realized, he didn’t know his mother. He knew Elaine Eliot, the pack Luna. He couldn’t say anything about Elaine Eliot, the girl, or Elaine Eliot, the young woman. She had always been this fearsome force that he knew better than to make angry. “Are you going to knock?” Aion asked. He turned to glare at his friend. “Yes, I’m going to knock.” “Okay, because you haven’t done it. And you know that she’s the one that has the clue to finding Nora. Do you not want to find her?” “Of course, I want to find her!” he snarled.
Thirty-nine:Nora Connolly Nora didn’t know what she expected when she was at her grandmother’s house. Especially considering that she hadn’t known that there was a family home to begin with. Her memories of being a kid involved moving from city to city whenever something went wrong in her parent’s life. Although now that she thought of it, she couldn’t remember what it was that had gone wrong. “Ready to go in?” Winter asked. “This place has been vacant for years, and it only opens with blood magic from a direct descendant.” She looked up at the house again. It towered over them, a large, Victorian thing that was pink and black with rainbow glass windows. She didn’t think she would ever be ready when it came to facing her past. But there was no point in running from it. She was standing right in front of it. Even as she stood there, the houses magic made the hair on the back of her neck stand on end. Come in, come in, it seemed to whispe
Forty:Roman Eliot Even though Roman was a werewolf, magic was something that he had never truly understood. Werewolves were about nature and instinct. Some aspects of their life were magic---like Endymion, the god of the moon that gave them their powers. But using magic itself wasn’t something that Roman had any clue about. That was why he went to Glinda. She was the one that could find lost things, or make a potion to cure a common cold, or enchant someone who was annoying him to get turned into a garden gnome or something else equally annoying. What he didn’t realize was how much weirdness went into it. At the moment, he was sitting in an empty room of The Stellarum. His mom was currently lighting candles, and smudging the room and there was some kind of circle of herbs around him like he was a chicken about to be cooked. After she had explained that Roman was part warlock, and related to The Night Coven, he had been dragged to the empty room by her. Then, t
Forty-one:Nora Connolly “I’m sorry, you want to what?” Winter looked at her completely baffled. “Swap my powers with you.” Winter tilted her head to the side. “You don’t want magic?” Nora shrugged. “What am I going to do with it? I mean, I barely know how to use it and I’m a werewolf’s mate. There’s no reason for me to have magic.” She was surprised when Winter looked at her with rage. “You have no idea what you’re talking about!” Nora raised an eyebrow. “I figured this would make you happy. I don’t want to be with Merrick, you don’t want to be with Ares. I’ll give you my power. This fixes everything.” She shook her head. “No. That power was given to you for a reason, Nora. You can’t just give it up. I know that you don’t want to be with Merrick, but being with the High Priest is an honorable thing. The Goddess wants you to work with Merrick to help the world.” “Then why was I mated to Rom
Forty-twoRoman Eliot Roman stared. He knew ghosts existed but he had never seen one up close. Werewolves were more about keeping magic in line. Less about using it. Although since he was part warlock, he wasn’t entirely sure now if that were the case. What did a werewolf with magic do? More importantly, could a coven and a pack exist together? The idea of humans knowing about the Powerists was that it should have made life easier for people. Not bring more conflict to them. “Is that even possible?” Roman asked. “Witches and werewolves working together? I always thought we were supposed to keep them in line.” The old woman shook her head. “The idea was, when we revealed ourselves to the humans, that there was safety in numbers. If we could help each other, then there was less chance that they would try and hurt us. And by presenting a united front, together we could actually make progress happened. A lot of this stemmed from your mom, Roman. Elaine