Chapter 89

Alice

The matriarch was in a bad way.

Not only did she feel guilty, but she felt responsible and that made her try much harder than usual to the point of energy exhaustion. I had to send her to sleep after she joined the groups to make as many Onyx stone charms as possible.

As the days passed, the tension was great, and the hermeticism continued in the Southern Pack. The information from the wizards, the vampires, and our own intelligence team was varied; however, they only agreed on a couple of things, and that was that Stefan was controlling the wolves with magic.

The reactions to the fact that he himself was a conduit of magic were bad.

For the first time, I managed to see some fear on the faces of the Cuburua sorceresses, which was not a normal thing. I knew they were brave, organized women who feared nothing, but if they were afraid of that, it didn't bode well.

“Are you okay?” asked Jackson as we lay down on the bed. “How's your back pain still?”

"The pain is the same, but I fee