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spell, Clarissa. I don’t know how to undo those.” I could hear the panic in my voice and saw Simon reach for his own phone. “Don’t you dare call Levi.” I snapped at him.
    “Abby,” Clarissa started, “First off, you’re going to calm down. The coven can fix this.”
    “The coven hates me.” I started to shake. “They aren’t going to want to help me.” I tried to keep the panic out of my voice.
    “They don’t hate you, they just don’t agree with you. Please. I’ll gather the priests and priestesses tomorrow night and we’ll take care of you.” She remained calm and tried to soothe me.
    “And until then? I have a job to do, I have to find these people!” I glared at Simon again when he tried to raise his phone to his ear. “I swear to my Goddess Simon, you call him I’ll be the one to feed you your balls.”
    I heard Clarissa chuckle, but when she spoke all humor was out of her voice. “You just have to go one day without using your magic. Stick to the research. Do you know who they are?”
    “Some coven that worships Ra.”
    She went silent. “Clarissa?” I asked after a minute.
    “Oh, Abigail.” She said and I knew she was hiding something. “Honey, you need to back away from this.”
    “I can’t, they blew someone up and took an arm from a werewolf.” I sighed. “There’s no way I can just let this go.”
    “Honey, they are a dangerous group. Just...do what you can for the case, but do not go after them. I’ll see you when I pick you up.” She disconnected.
    I dropped the phone in my lap and just stared at it. What was I supposed to do? I found myself tearing up. I had a feeling that this went deeper than I wanted to admit.
    “I texted Levi.” Simon broke the silence.
    “You ass.”
    “To be fair you said that I couldn’t call him. He doesn’t want you touching the case until you see Clarissa.”
    He was right, I didn’t tell him not to text. “I won’t. I can’t.” I shook my head. “The good news is that I know they are at least the same coven that blew that barn up.”
    “I suppose that’s good news. What can you do with that information?”
    Not a whole lot since I knew nothing about them. “Research. I need to see what or who they consider to have gone against the original craft.” I took a cracker from the plate he’d brought me.
    I flipped through the binder as I munched. There wasn’t a whole lot in my father’s notes on them, but there was a name that kept popping up. I’d have to get to my office to actually research the name, but that wasn’t happening tonight. No, Simon wouldn’t let me leave the house and honestly. I couldn’t blame him in any way for that. I wasn’t sure if I wanted to leave the house.
    I woke when Simon moved the binder off my lap and removed the pen from my limp hand. He smiled at me. “I went to bed last night and came out this afternoon to find you passed out on the couch.”
    “I was just resting my eyes.” I rubbed my hands over my face.
    Simon laughed. “Uh huh, that’s why there’s drool on your cheek.”
    Ew. “I need a shower.”
    “I’ll cook breakfast. I can’t stay too long, but Clarissa called saying that she’d pick you up about four and take you out to the meeting place.”
    I wrinkled my nose. “Yeah, that sounds like a load of fun.”
    “Not a fan of the coven?” He asked.
    I glanced at my phone and realized it was already three o’clock. “I’m registered with them, but they don’t accept me as one. They don’t agree with me working for Levi or the state. They want me to let karma come to those who harm. I’m also more powerful than most of the priests and priestesses.”
    “Then why aren’t you one?”
    “Because I don’t want to be.” I said honestly. “I don’t have the discipline or the desire to be one. I have other goals in my life than being mother hen over a coven.” In reality I didn’t want to be responsible if something happened to a member, especially in situations