Chapter 28: The Coven Vs. Sydlynn Hayle

I was getting tired of the same argument going around the kitchen, especially since it was about me and proceeded as if I wasn't even in the room. Always nice to be ignored.

The Vegas insisted that without my intervention and whatever it was I did, they would not have survived and possibly taken the whole coven and half the neighborhood with them. And yet, Mom was still forced to face the challenge Dominic raised about me.

We may not have been talking to each other right then, but my mother was totally on my side. Which was a huge surprise.

"It's irrelevant," Dominic said for the hundredth time so even his supporters were getting tired of him. "The child is obviously a menace and needs her power restricted."

My mother laughed. And laughed. And laughed some more. The family stared at her after a while, even Erica. Dominic's face turned two more shades of purple.

Mom finally wiped at her eyes with the back of her hand.

"If you can figure out a way," she said, "to restrict that kind