MATTEO
The brujas circle; equal halves of sodom and hell.
That’s how my uncle Harris had described it to me and Hades when he was teaching us about the places alpha princes and potential betas must not set foot in. We were barely ten at the time, but we had just been assigned personal drivers so he felt the need to educate us on where and where we must never go.
Afterwards, he’d made us both promise that we would never visit the city of witches no matter how desperate or curious we were about any issues. That we would first seek his counsel and that of respected sorcerers instead of turning to witches that dabbled in all sorts of forbidden and potentially destructive black magic. And Hades and I had eagerly made that promise to him.
Yet, here I was, eight years later, breaking that pro
