Escape the Covenant || Shawmila [Completed]

Prologue

I was never taught how to love. I was never taught how to give my heart to someone else. For my entire life, all I ever learnt was how to protect myself. There are forces all around us that most people cannot understand. Me? I'm used to it. I know how to manipulate them, how to use them to my advantage. From a very young age my grandma taught me how to control the four elements, she showed me how my mind could bend things at my will. But there was one thing that she had made sure I knew: the curse casted on our family.

She never got into details, but she highlighted the fact that I wasn't allowed to love. Or, more precisely, I wasn't allowed to have my happy ending. I was destined to live a lonely life, just me and my power. I could have never got married or spent the rest of my days with the one that I loved. My children would have been the result of mere lust, and they would have carried the weight of our family's curse. But what if I challenged this dark spell? What would have happened?

Death.

My grandma went on and on about the consequences that I would have faced if I ignored the curse. She never got tired of repeating the story of my mom, the way that she died because she was stupid enough to go against that magic. I didn't want to end up like her. I didn't want to die because of some stupid feelings. So, I avoided boys – sometimes even girls. I channeled all my energies into one single purpose: to become one of the best witches of the last centuries.

I had a lot of plans... until his arrival. I never thought I could fall in love, or even have the chance to. But sometimes life steps into your way, and you can only accept it. Even I, a powerful witch, couldn't control Fate.