Luca's POV
"You mean to tell me you didn't research this woman you lived with for months!?" I punched the useless man before me right in his jaw. Patrick and I have been hiding in the woods in a magic sanctuary I created just outside of Port Angeles. I'm really regretting not letting Brynn kill Patrick two weeks ago.
Obsession has filled me ever since I laid eyes on King Arlen's human mate. As much as I wanted Tessa, she has nothing compared to Brynn. Those blue green eyes have haunted my dreams since we met a couple of weeks ago. I'm going to have her!

A human time freezer!! Never in my days would I have thought I would meet one. Watching Brynn from afar still her surroundings and pummel that Russian into oblivion was absolutely phenomenal.
How I wish I had been the one to meet Brynn first. She'd have made one hell of a mate. Maybe I would have been a happier man had I found her before Jenkins did. But now, she's with the Fairy King!
Getting Brynn will be very tough, but not impossible.
Patrick is cowering in a corner as usual. I stared at him, thinking of the many ways I can kill him right now. What use is he to me alive now anyway?! I emitted my smoke getting ready to put an end to him....
"There's more! I know who her grandparents are!!" I withdrew my smoke and hurled him across the sanctuary floor.
"The hell did you say!?" I got in Patrick's face.

"That's all you will get from me! You want to kill me whatever! But the real question is how long are you willing to wait!!" Patrick had a smug look in his eyes I didn't much care for.
"I could torture it out of you..." Patrick froze under my magic. I bent the fingers of his left hand back, relishing the pops. He whimpered and I let him fall to the floor.
"Torture won't make me give up what I know! No matter how much you hate me, you need me! I'm the only one who can lead you right to her grandparents door!!" Patrick sobbed, falling to the ground.
"F**K!!" I hurled Patrick with my magic and slammed him onto the ground. Patrick was bleeding from his side and looked like he was about to pass out.

"Man do I hate you!!" I shouted, realizing how much I had screwed up keeping him alive.
What do you think Zade? Is he lying?
I can't discern that but if you want Brynn quickly, we need him alive.
Not what I wanted to hear. I'm stuck with this man for the long haul. F**k me!!
We need healing magic to keep him alive. He's bleeding internally. I can sense it!
I summoned Aunt Desdemona. She came through ready to kill me, but saw my dying human prisoner sprawled out in the corner.
"Is there a reason you want me to keep him alive!?" Desdemona snapped at me.
"He is the ex-boyfriend of the Fairy King's mate." I smiled at her.
"What else!" Desdemona commanded.
"The woman is a human time freezer. I watched her stop time and kill this man's friend. She's superb, Auntie." Desdemona grinned ear to ear.
"So you know who she is. Why do we need him?" Desdemona motioned to Patrick.
"Because he knows who her family is. The girl is heavily guarded and Arlen has now recruited wizards into his camp. If we can find out the source of this girl's power, we can use it against Arlen and take Brynn to our side." Desdemona rolled her eyes.
"Why do you get these obsessions with women who don't belong to you!!" Desdemona shouted at me, throwing her hands in the air in aggravation.
"Auntie, I don't think she is just a time freezer. She has another ability. I sensed it, but don't know what it is! And I need to keep this i***t alive to figure out who her family is and who Brynn really is!!"
Desdemona shot Patrick a glance, whose color was pale. Even his lips had lost color.
"A dead man can't help us, Auntie." I whispered. Desdemona chanted and flooded Patrick with her magic. Within a few minutes, his color returned and he was no longer bleeding.
"What do you know about the Fairy King's mate!?" Desdemona commanded Patrick.
"Plenty. And I won't tell you until I get what I want!" Patrick shouted back. Desdemona slapped him so hard his she bloodied his nose.
Patrick laughed in satisfaction. "I see we understand each other. I know something both of you want to know. And I'll take it to my grave until you give me just what I want!!"
"What is it that you want! To be one of us??" I asked him.
"Exactly!!" S**t!
"It doesn't work like that. My nephew is a wolf/witch hybrid and doesn't have the power to turn anyone. I can make you a witch but your power is not up to me. You can have a great power or a very mild one." Desdemona tried to placate him.
"I just want some power in case that b***h tries to kill me again!" Subconsciously I punched Patrick, sending him flying five feet in front of me.
"NEVER SPEAK OF BRYNN IN THAT MANNER EVER AGAIN!!" I screamed at Patrick. Suddenly his eyes narrowed.
"She's easy to fall for but she's as fake as they come. I was her first, Luca!! But she just had to have more!" Patrick laughed.
"Or maybe you just couldn't satisfy her!" I smugly told him, watching his eyes twitch.
"ENOUGH! Luca, what are your intentions with the time freezer!" Desdemona demanded.
"She will join me by my side as long as I breathe. I am confident I can build a bond with her to weaken Arlen and get rid of him once and for all. Getting him out of the way will get us closer to those twins at Fire Moon!"
"You are really a foolish man. Arlen will fight like hell for his mate! He's got several entities on his side!!" My aunt countered.
"But he doesn't have the powers of hundreds of witch covens! He doesn't have whoever his mate's family is backing him yet, even if they will! As this scum said Brynn is an orphan and may not even know who they are! And...Arlen doesn't have my mother." Auntie's eyes widened in understanding.
"Your mother is coming here." She whispered.
"She's already here, Auntie. I need your help to find her." I affirmed.
"I'll have to do a location spell since she has been out of touch with us for so long. Since you are her son, you need to prick your finger. I just need a drop of blood." Desdemona took a small dagger from her cloak. I held out my left hand to her and she pricked my finger slightly, squeezing one drop of blood onto her hand. She joined hands with me and started to chant.
The room of my sanctuary grew very bright and cold. It took a few minutes, but eventually my mother appeared in front of us.
"Sister. Long time no see." Desdemona whispered.
"Mama!" I cried out. My mother's face hadn't changed at all. She was just as beautiful as I remembered her. We embraced tightly.
"How I have missed you Luca!" My mother sobbed as she clutched me to her. She let me go and stared at her sister.
"Oh Dessi. What happened to you!" My mother hugged Desdemona to her. My aunt cried in her arms.
"That f*****g Fairy King burned my face because I didn't tell him who Luca really was!"
"Oh that son of a b***h! We will make him pay!" My mother's eyes became pitch black as she turned to me. Her eyes narrowed to the simpering Patrick still sprawled out on the floor in fright.
"And just who in the hell is this!" Sophia snapped at us.
"We have much to tell you Mama." I filled her in on Patrick being the ex-boyfriend of the Fairy King's mate and what he had done to her, Anthony and Tessa's faewolf twins, and Patrick holding information about Brynn's family in exchange for being one of us. By the time I was finished, my mother's jaw was about on the floor.
She burned holes into Patrick's eyes. "So you want to be one of us?"
"I'll tell you everything, but you will make me one of you and you will release me from this family affair to be on my own!"
I got right in the p***k's face. "THAT WASN'T PART OF YOUR ORIGINAL NEGOTIATION!!"
"Things have changed, Luca! I don't care what the hell you witches do! I just want powers to stay hidden from the authorities and get as far away from the three of you freaks as I can get!" Patrick's attempt at a negotiation was pathetic.
"Now that I have met the lovely Brynn, I should kill you where you stand for what you did to her!!" The amount of hate I have for this man is astronomical right now.
"But I have something you want. And it will go to the grave with me if you don't give me what I want! You're not a patient man Luca. Just how much longer are you willing to chase leads trying to find my ex-girlfriend's family??" Patrick really had me in a bind. My mother clapped her hands.
"Enough. Turning someone into a witch is not a simple feat! When we do it we have no control over the kind of magic or power you get! And how do we know you are not lying!" Sophia got right in Patrick's face.
"You don't know. But are you really willing to scramble around all over the United States trying to find Brynlee's family when I can just give you the information quickly??" Patrick side-eyed her.
Desdemona stared at Patrick. "I'm not discerning deception. It's your call, Sophia."
My mother stared at Patrick with contempt. "Here is my counter offer. You take us to her grandparents house within three days. IF they have useful information that will help us get Brynn and take care of the Fairy King, I will turn you myself."
"NO! I want to be turned now!!" Patrick pouted like a child.
"That's my one and only offer, you little f**k! Take it or leave it!" My mother isn't pulling any punches with Patrick Jenkins and I love it!
"We will do an oath of agreement if it will make you feel better. We witches must hold up our oaths and bargains." Desdemona placated him. Patrick stared at all three of us in rage.
"I personally want nothing more than to incinerate you. If it takes me months to find out what I want to know, them's the breaks. The real questions are...just how badly do you want to be one of us, Jenkins? Just how lucky are you feeling??" Patrick's eyes finally lost their smugness.
"Fine. I'll tell you how to get there. Be ready for a long drive." Patrick crossed his arms in defeat.
"Remember the conditions. Three days and only IF the grandparents have useful information. If they don't you are DEAD!!" My mother screamed in Patrick's face.
"I understand." Patrick asked. My mother, Aunt Desdemona and I came together and joined hands.
"Goddess here our oath this moment. We will turn Patrick Jenkins into one of your children in three days time if the information he provides is useful. If he is being deceptive, he will turn to dust!" The three of us chanted a prayer then pricked our fingers, then Patrick's.
If he becomes a witch, it will not be good. You better watch for any reason to not make him one!!
I watched with dread as the blood collected into a puddle on the ground.