Elira slammed her hand into the table, sending a stack of papers flying across the room. The underground house shook faintly from the force of her fury. Around her, the other coven members went silent, their eyes lowered, heads bowed. No one dared move because when Elira was like this, she could be messy.
"She should be here!" Elira snapped, her voice laced with venom, her breathing hard. "By now, we were supposed to have completed the binding. With Freya, we could’ve had all the power we needed. We would have been untouchable. Oh goddess, this is taking longer than I thought.”
A nearby witch who looked young and timid, being in the wrong place at the wrong time, flinched when Elira's magic lashed through the air like a whip and struck her across the arm. The girl yelped and dropped to h
