Malia With the witches now gone, the room fell to an awkward silence once more. My mother took her leave shortly after them. She never wanted to be a part of this world and I knew she had been itching to get out of here all night. Having a daughter who was becoming the leader among the magical world that she hated was clearly very challenging for her. Plus, with my father and his new wife so close by, she was just trying to escape any further awkwardness this morning. “So what comes now?” Connor was the first to ask the question we were all thinking. Surely tonight’s events would not go unacknowledged by the coven. We’d taken coven members, we’d broken up the system that they viewed as a family, and there would be a price to pay for that. A chill ran down my spine at the thought of the

