BRIE had locked herself in her dorm room; not wanting to have contact with the outside world. She had turned off her phone after the first hour of receiving endless phone calls and texts. Not that she read any of them anyways. She informed her professors that she wouldn't be in her classes due to being sick.

During her time in self-confinement, she began to think about what had happened the other day. Twice she had felt something take control of her and her magic felt stronger than it was ever before.

She needed answers…and there was only one person that could provide them. Ignoring the splitting headaches from her hangover, Brie dressed into a pair of dark washed skinny jeans and a white tank top. She had thrown her black hoodie over her shoulders and let her dorm room.

She kept her head down as she pulled her phone and turned it back on. 'I need to talk to you' she had messaged to Vera; ignoring the notifications of messages and missed call coming through her phone.

'Come to my house,' Vera had replied back.

Brie had taken the bus to Vera's as her car was still at her father's and she didn't feel like going and grabbing it just to drive to Vera's. She had been to the Temple Magus' house a few times as Vera trusted her more than anyone else.

When she arrived at Vera's place, she knocked on the front door. She wasn't waiting long before the door opened, and Vera was waiting on the other side. "Finally, you join the land of the living," Vera commented as she allowed Brie to enter the house.

"I need answers, Vera," Brie explained as they sat down in the living room across from each other.

Brie let out a loud sigh; running her fingers through her hair. "There's something wrong with me," she told Vera, her eyes growing cloudy from tears forming.

"Yesterday, when Gabrielle used the glove on me, I was overwhelmed with pain that I felt something take control over me. I felt magic that I have never felt before," Brie explained; her hands shaking as she remembered what happened.

Vera let out a sigh before saying; "I was afraid this would happen."

"What would happen?" Brie asked; staring up at Vera with wide eyes.

"When your mother was pregnant with you, your father used a spell. At first, we thought it didn't work. But when your eyes turned purple, we knew it did. And we were terrified," Vera explained making Brie let out a gasp.

"What did he do to me?" she snarled at Vera, but her anger wasn't directed at Vera.

"He wanted power. Power that requires a powerful heir. He wanted to make sure you were powerful," Vera answered; watching as Brie's eyes began to glow and she stood up from the couch.

"What did he do?!" Brie screamed as a wind suddenly appeared as it blew through her hair.

The wind knocked items off the tables, sending them crashing to the floor.

"Brie, you need to control yourself," Vera begged; looking around in shock at the display of Brie's newly found powers.

Brie closed her eyes and took a deep breath. The wind disappeared and Brie opened her eyes to reveal they had ceased their glowing. "He wanted you to be more powerful than anyone has ever been. With you by his side, he can do anything as no one would challenge him," Vera explained as she shakily rose to her feet and slowly walked towards Brie.

Brie felt her body begin to shake as she was unable to hold back her sobs. Edward Coventry had decided his own daughter's fate. All for power.

Vera pulled the young woman into a tight hug; her heart aching at the sight of the young woman she had thought of as a daughter. Brie let out loud sobs as she cried into Vera's shoulder; grateful she will always have Vera by her side.

"Your mother let him when she discovered what he did. She promised herself that she would do everything in her power to keep you away from him. I have a feeling that your father had something to do with her death," Vera explained as she placed her hands on Brie's shoulders and looked down at her.

"I'm gonna kill him," Brie threatened; the vision of her loving father now shattered into a thousand pieces.

"First we must stop him from completing the Vade Maecum," Vera explained to which Brie recognised what she was talking about.

"Don't worry. He's not getting his hands on Maddox," Brie promised; remembering that Vera didn't know about Jack's true parentage.

The Vade Maecum required the final sacrifice to the firstborn son of the practitioner. And Edward wasn't getting his hands on either of her brothers.

"What's your plan?" Brie asked Vera with a large smirk.

Her father will regret giving Brie her power.