Chapter 141

Sophia’s POV

“Did she say why?”

“No, she didn’t, Elijah. But she constantly pleaded with me to be careful. She even got teary about it.”

I swallowed the boulder that lodged itself in my throat. That was what feared me. My mother had been a strong witch when she was alive, things almost never fazed her but the fear I had seen in her eyes had been so raw. I could still see them as I shit tight my eyes, even her desperate pleas to be careful rang in my head. What had Mephistopheles not told us? Had he deceived us? What was going to happen with the use of the Blood Emerald?

I sobered up immediately, we had come this far. My mother, Miss Ava, Camilla and some other innocent people we didn’t know had died because of this war. If making a sacrifice to stop feud that affected innocents too was what it took, then I had to be ready. Though I was yet to know how I was going to use but Mephistopheles had assured that when it was time, he’ll connect me and tell me