Chapter 145. Training Wheel

Carter’s POV

“This is bullshit!” Brett hisses as he slams the car door shut. He’s sitting in the passenger seat while Aidan is driving. And I, of course, am sitting alone in the backseat.

“How did she break the spell?” Aidan says, putting the car in gear as we get the hell away from William Wilcox’s stupid mansion.

“I don’t know, but she couldn’t have done it by herself,” I reply. I mean, for real, I made sure everything was done perfectly. I took my time with her so she didn’t suspect anything. Then slowly and surely, after I’ve infiltrated her mind and planted ideas in her head, I sealed it with the black onyx stone.

“Is it possible that her powers are stronger than we thought?” Brett asks. “I mean, she did figure out the power of the black onyx—”

“No,” I cut him off sharply. “I’ve dealt with that.”

I’m referring to the fact that after she took off the jewelry and ambushed us at the South Tower, I had my most powerful and purest stone and