Her Purpose || Kai Parker

Chapter 93

Back at the coven, Joshua was seething with rage.

The news of the rescue had reached him far too quickly for his liking, and it burned him from the inside out.

His fingers twitched at his sides, and his jaw clenched so tightly it hurt.

How could they not understand? He wasn't the villain here.

He was cleansing the poison that had been spreading through the community like a disease.

The people who had been rescued weren't real witches-weak, powerless imposters who didn't possess true magic.

But that problem could wait. Right now, he has more pressing matters. His coven. His family.

He was happy when he heard that Jo's children had survived and that his and coven magic had worked.

But then came the bitter truth-vampire had been the one to carry his grandchildren, an insult he still couldn't fully swallow.

At first, the shock of Lizzie and Josie being siphoners had nearly crushed him.

The same tainted bloodline as Malachai.

The same cursed power that had turned his coven upside down.

He couldn't bear it. The idea of them merging-of them possessing magic like his-was a nightmare he refused to face.

Yet what disturbed him even more was what he had sensed the first time he held his granddaughters.

The others didn't notice it, but as the leader of the Gemini Coven, Joshua had a keen sense for magic, for power.

And in those brief moments, cradling them in his arms, he knew.

It wasn't just that Lizzie and Josie were siphoners-it was something far worse.

They didn't have the power of leadership, the natural magic that would mark them as the future of the coven.

That realization had sent a chill down his spine.

He hadn't admitted it to anyone, not even Jo. But he had kept watch over them, wary of what was to come.

Now, here he was, in the solitude of his study, with strands of Lizzie and Josie's hair resting in front of him.

The candles flickered as he delved deep into his own magic, seeking answers to the questions that gnawed at him.

He had felt a surge of power, something unsettlingly familiar.

As he focused, the room around him seemed to shift, and his magic spiral outward, seeking what had eluded him for so long. And then-there it was.

The truth hit him like a lightning bolt, knocking the breath from his lungs.

His eyes widened in shock as he finally understood.

Estrella was hiding-no, it couldn't be.

Now that he knew the truth, it terrified and angered him more than anything he had ever faced before.

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Amidst the chaos of one problem after another, there was finally a bright spot in the town-Stefan had proposed to Caroline, and she had tearfully said yes.

Lexi had been over the moon, giving her best friend a hearty slap on the back and teasing him for finally using his brain, which she claimed to have been in his knees all this time.

With Christmas Eve just around the corner, Lexi had promised Estrella and the twins she'd make it up to them after all the mayhem, but she decided to celebrate the holiday with Stefan and Caroline instead.