Chapter 31: Chapter 31: Free to Act

I jerked upright in the seat of my car, taking a deep breath, remembering everything.

***

No, no, it had been so close, it can't fail, not now-

The shining glow of MacDonald power bursts into life, scattering the remains of the curse, destroying it utterly as it sings its song for the first time since the death of its beloved Lilith.

Into the heart of the granddaughter it was destined for.

***

Sparkles glowed across my hands, across the phone as I dropped it in my lap. Darkness swirled and try to encompass me, but I brushed it away, smothering it with the glow of the magic now fully in my possession. I felt the curse die, heard it shriek as it fled for me, and knew I was free of it at last.

Witches were real. There was too such a thing as magic. And I was neck deep in it.

"I'm a witch." So odd to hear those words out loud, whispered to myself in the sudden quiet of my car. "I'm the witch." Holy crap. I couldn't deal with this.

I needed coffee.