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During the first thirty minutes in the SUV, we talked a lot. Killian told Drake what had happened to him. Almae added details she remembered from when Soren had abducted him. And then I realized Almae had been a Silverblood witch. I asked her if my mother had been one too.
“Yes,” Almae said. “She was a Silverblood witch, which means you’re one too.”
I stared at Thea in the passenger seat beside Drake. She was my coven’s queen. Holy s**t.
I frowned. “Do you know why my mother left?”
Queen Thea twisted in her seat and looked back at us. “I was a toddler when she left, but from the digging we did, we think Zaira met your father and fell in love. At that time, demon hunters were supposed to kill witches. We believe she left the coven to be with him.”
That made sense. The demon hunters
