Chapter 168

Vera's POV I kept trying to cast a spell, any spell, or at least summon a flicker of power to fight back. I wanted to kill Ciara so badly. But Maya… she had stripped everything from me. My magic was gone. Completely. I still couldn’t make sense of how it had all happened so fast. One moment, I had the upper hand. I was hidden, perfectly. No one should have been able to find me. Even if they did, I should have been untouchable. Invincible. But she found me. She confronted me… as an Echo of the Earth Mother. How? How the hell did Maya attain that kind of power? That title only existed in legends. No witch should have been able to access it easily, especially not in her state. I know my spell worked. I trapped her, her sisters, and their mates in the hallucination. It was flawless. They should have been stuck, endlessly reliving the pain of rejection. There was no way she could have broken out of it. But she did. And when we fought… my dark magic was supposed to consume hers. That’s how t