Chapter 135

And ready, I was not.

My very busy schedule suddenly got a lot busier. Every other day I had to drive up to the coven. Most of it was sat in meditation for hours, only to get slapped with a staff when my mind wandered. One thing I could do was focus on my drawings for long periods of time but focusing on nothing was not in my wheelhouse. It turned out I was exceptionally bad at it. Leaving me some days recovering just from the amount of hits I got from the two of them.

“You’re wandering again!” Sophie hit me between the shoulders with the stick.

I knew better than to answer or even growl. That was breaking out of the concentration completely and usually ended up with some kind of magic being slung at me. Taking a deep breath, I focused inside. It wasn’t a natural thing to do. Pushing away the pack bond, even pushing Niru out of my head, was far more difficult than it seemed. I hadn’t been alone in my own head since I was a child. Th