"Dammit, how come you were unable to drown the young princess? Do you know what is going to happen if King Orion finds out that Prince Alestair's daughter lives? When he no longer needs us, he will cast us aside." The dark witch Amborse says as she paces up and down her office as she yells at her son Zane. He is half witch and half vampire. Vampires can have children only if they are turned by the vampire king. Although the royal family can have children with whoever they want, the child must be carried by a human or other supernatural female. They can choose to be turned after they reach the age of twenty-five, at which point they are born human. Zane made that choice one hundred and twenty-five years ago.

"Mother, you are worried about nothing. Father won't toss you aside. The only reason why you think this is because this new female possibly is better looking than you." Zane sits at her desk, brings a glass of blood to his lips, and drinks it while rolling his eyes. When he is finished, he grins at his mother, sets the glass down, and moves toward the door. However, he pauses and looks at his mom.

"By the way, Mother, green is not your color." He says before leaving the room. As he walks to his room, he stops when he hears his father talking to one of their men. "I want this new fae female. She is the solution to all of our issues; if I have her, I will be able to control not only the vampires but also the fae and gypsy realms. That means we can get out of here and have full access to Earth. the event that she rejects me, we will be forced to take her." Orion says to one of his men as Zane stands behind the door listening to his father. He knows he can't allow this to happen; he just has to figure out how to put a stop to it. The only person he knows who can tell the fae king what is going on is his favorite person, and that is his Aunt Mercy.

With that in mind, he turns and heads to the tower where his portal is. He makes it up to the tower, grabs a wooden box that has roses carved on the lid, and opens it. Inside the box is a black ring. He puts it on his pointer finger and takes a deep breath. He then pictures his aunt's garden and then spins the ring on his finger to the left twice and then once to the right. Once he is done, he sees blue light flash in front of him with white swirls around the edge. He walks through it and has to blink his eyes a couple of times to help his eyes adjust. Once done, he sees his aunt walking over to him with a bright, kind smile on her face. She has always carried herself with such strength and confidence. She is also very beautiful with her white hair and big brown eyes.

"How is my favorite nephew?" Mercy asks as she walks up to him and brings Zane in for a hug. "I'm your only nephew, Aunt Mercy." Zane says to her with a smile on his face. "So what brings you here?" Mercy asks her nephew. "Can we go somewhere private?" Zane asks her. She motions for him to follow her. Zane may be part vampire and witch, but he is far from being like his parents. He is kind; he also is the one who has been feeding his aunt information on what his parents plans are to kill the fae. When he failed to kill the princess, that was the plan along; he didn't want to hurt her. That's why he let Nokken get her out. He just made his mother think he tried his best to kill her and failed.

"Aunt Mercy My mother wants to kill the king's niece, and my father wants to force her to marry him. If she doesn't do what he wants, he will kill everyone and take her by force. You need to warn them and get her back to the human world," Zane says to her.

"Did he actually say this? Has something happened?" Zane's aunt questions her concern, lacing her voice.

"What the hell do you think? Of course! They had me try to drown her! Who the hell does that? Luckily they allowed me to pick when I wanted to make my attack, and I was able to wait until I knew she was being watched and someone would hear." Zane groans, dragging his hand over his face in frustration. "Nokken was able to save her, and there should not have been any actual harm done besides her being freaked out."

"That is troublesome." Mercy shakes her head, sighing, looking over at him.

"We need to tell them, but I will let you know, Zane, you better stay away because if Nokken hears what you did, he is going to try killing you." Mercy says to Zane.

He looks at his aunt with confusion.

"Do you remember the seer orb I used to have before your mother stole it only to find out it wouldn't work for her because she uses it for dark magic?"

"Of course I do. It almost started a war all of its own."

"Well, one of the last images that came out of it was one where a girl who was not full-blooded ended up being the mate to a warrior, and I believe those two are Trinity and Nokken. My potion that has worked on every other warrior did not take for him," Mercy explains, and Zane sits there dumbfounded and amazed.