Melanie’s biological mother, Sybl, had been the head of their coven. She was a powerful Earth witch who had turned to dark magic and created a coven of her own. Her coven took in stray rogues who had been cast out from their packs for wrong deeds. She had sent them the night Melanie had heard her mother calling to her.
Because Sybl and Melanie shared the same blood, it was easy for Sybl to caste a spell on Melanie and make her think a familiar voice was calling out to her. In Melanie’s case, Aria had explained that Sybl had probably caste a spell for Melanie to hear the voice of the person she loved the most in the world.
“She purposefully became pregnant with you to have a hybrid baby,” Aria confessed sadly. “To help make her dark coven stronger.”
In retrospect, Melanie realized the
