Priya sighed. She knew this was coming, and she was going to end up caught in the crossfire. The problem was that she was part of Wolfe's Pentacle, and when Reiko had been made Coven Leader, it had stripped her from her bond, which had created the vacancy that Priya had filled.
She wasn't willing to give up that connection. Not to Wolfe, and not to the Witches she now considered her Sisters. The bond was so close now that they could feel each other's strongest emotions, and even talk to each other through the bond with a bit of effort.
Losing that connection to the other nine Witches would be too much, and she wasn't willing to do it.
"I will agree to be Coven Leader in name, but not through the Coven Bond. The Leader of the Coven is stripped of all their other bonds, and I won't give those up. The Pentacle that links me to my chosen sisters is too valuable to me to be discarded for a position of power.
