New Coven Chapter 9

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Richard did have somewhere to be, but for once he had the option to tell them they had to wait on him. Not like they could do the announcement without him. Mere opportunity that was at his hand wasn’t something he longed for. He’d take it, after all it came about because he reported the current Coven. He knew when he did it, there was no one else among the coven that could step up and take charge of the wayward coven. Over all, the price he had to pay would be in his favor. Sure meant there was no mistake in him finding Edward.

“Why do you say this is a mistake? You felt it.”

“You know this area will not accept us.”

Least Edward did not lie. Most people would have had an extremely hard time accepting a all male pairing, but didn’t matter anymore. He was going to change all that. Was the first task on his long list of jobs. More and more male pairing were sprining up on the Eastern half of the world. Most were being mistreated and having to flee to the Western states. The higher ups were not happy and had sent out several undercover SpellBinders to weed out the Coven that were not confining to the new laws of the Covens. He’d landed in the small coven who not only refused to accept the new laws on pairings, but were also living by the old ways of punishment. A way of life that went out of style some fifty years ago. Richard had not been sure why no coven member had not gone to the higher ups, but he had soon as he was taken to task for being late to one meeting. Only took one time for him to be threatened with a whipping to put his ass in gear. Took him another month or two to gather the evidence of what was going on and another month to persuade people to testify on their own behalf. Once all that was done, the higher up had gone into their usual meetings, taking their sweet old time to come up with an answer. Not one Richard liked, but should have been one he expected. Part of him had assumed he’d be stuck with the Coven, but . . .

“Why you say that? It’s the law.”

“Wasn’t a fool. Came here with the knowledge of what the Coven was like. You’ve lived been in the coven longer than me.”

Edward spoke as if that said it all. And it should have. “Things are not the same around here. And why would you come to a coven if you knew they lived in the old ways when they are new laws in place?”

“Old ways!” Edward sat up taller. “There was nothing of that mentioned in all the papers I received from the Coven leader.”

“Why would there have been? He was breaking the laws.”

Richard saw the defeat written all over his other half’s face. “What brought you here?”

“Why are things not the same here?”

“Nice avoidance.” Richard took the cloth from Edwards leg, tiliting it right then left. “Healed up. Sorry about Rex.”

“My own fault.” Edward sighed. “I was running from life. Now, why are things changing here.”

“The coven was reported to the higher ups and a new leader has been appointed.”

“Is he worse or better than the old one?”

“Better.”