Arlen's POV
Two Days Before
"Anthony and Aiden Starr, I command that you not mutter what I am about to tell you. I have found my Queen." I informed the Starr brothers. Aiden and Anthony came to my office in Dreake due to security concerns at Fire Moon. Too many magic breaches have happened and we are desperately trying to locate the wizard Roman Esperanza.

Both Anthony and Aiden smiled widely at me. "King Arlen, that is wonderful news! Who is she?" Anthony asked.
"This is where it gets complicated. My mate is a human with a very troubled past. And right now she is in real danger. This is why it is imperative no one knows what I just told you until the threat is eliminated." I gave them a short version of what happened to Brynn. Both of them looked absolutely furious by the time I was done.
"Where is he?" Aiden asked me, dark fury in his eyes.
"He's at the state prison in Maine. Brynn's case is going to retrial next week. Already a witness and a prosecutor working on this case have been killed. They can't link him to them yet, but their link to my mate is too obvious to ignore!" I said.
"What do you want us to do? Go with your mate to Maine and make sure she gets back safe?" Aiden asked me.
But Anthony knows better. "Don't be daft, deartháir daor! Arlen want us to make sure there is no retrial." Anthony clarified.

"I see we are all on the same page." I confirmed.
"Even better. One less piece of shite in the world. We are with you all the way King Arlen!" Aiden told me. Anthony nodded in solidarity.
"I want you to take Emmett on this mission." Emmett Holt is part of a quadruplet sibling group I trained years ago for special missions and helped us tremendously last year with Brent Serrano and Luca Lombardo. Him and his siblings are half demon/half fairy hybrids.
"I've looked up this prison. It is maximum security and very difficult to get into. Patrick is in a unit with solitary cells and extensive surveillance. You will need Emmett's invisibility power to get in and get Patrick Jenkins out." I clarified to them.

"Doesn't he have to be touching a person to make them invisible?" Anthony asked me.
"He does. I talked to him about that already. We are thinking the best way to get Jenkins out is for Aiden and Emmett to go in, Aiden will freeze Jenkins, and then Emmett will use his invisibility to get you all out to where you will wait in a getaway car. Get him to a secluded spot and..." I did a slice motion to my throat.
"Anthony, you'll be able to put your dismal driving skills to the real test!!" Aiden laughed at him, making Anthony roll his eyes. I couldn't help but laugh. Jokes aside, there are no other two men I'd trust with this mission besides Jason. But he doesn't have the Fae power the Starrs and Emmett do.
There was a knock on the door and I sensed it was Brynn. "Come in, love." I called to her.
Brynn came in and walked over to my side, staring at the Starr brothers. "Brynn, these are my dear friends, Anthony and Aiden Starr." Both of them bowed their heads, and Brynn immediately blushed and hid halfway behind me. I fist-bumped myself mentally. My mate was finally starting to trust me.
"Queen Brynn, it is so wonderful to meet you." Aiden said cordially. Brynn's eyes opened wide in shock.
"It's shocking to hear my name like that. Queen Brynn. Huh." She said softly.
"Brynn, these two men and another man are going to help us with Patrick." She turned to Aiden and Anthony.
"Can you kill him when you get to him?" she asked them.
"We can't kill Patrick inside the prison. The King just informed us that Patrick is in a special unit in a private cell with continuous surveillance monitoring. If we end him inside the cell, we run the risk of the cameras capturing us. Our plan is to infiltrate his cell using magic, grab him with another fairy who can use powers of invisibility before we are detected, and get him out of the prison and end him quickly. That way it will look like it was an escape plan gone bad and not put us at risk." Anthony explained to her. Brynn nodded in understanding.
"Whatever you do, don't underestimate him. Patrick's dangerous and will stop at nothing to get what he wants." Brynn cautioned them.
"Queen Brynn, may I ask why you don't want to end him yourself?" Aiden wanted to know.
Brynn stared at them and suddenly, reached down to pull her black legging pant leg up over her left leg. All three of us gasped in shock at the four large, jagged scars on her lower leg causing a golf ball sized indent right above the ankle. I instantly felt rage and had to pray not to lose it right there.
"He had already beat me near to death when he used a rattlesnake on me. He's been around reptiles long enough he's almost one himself and sneaky as they come. Sure, I want my face to be the last thing Patrick sees. But I want him dead much more. I don't care how it's done, just do it quickly and make sure he can never hurt anyone else!" Brynn us.
"Brynn, I had no idea." Tears were forming in my eyes. I looked down quickly.
"Those scars are from four separate surgeries. They had to remove muscle tissue that got destroyed from the venom and caused infection. I'm lucky I even got to keep my lower leg." Brynn told us before pulling her legging back down and sitting down beside me. How right she looked in the chair I had picked only for my Queen.
"Your majesty, we will do as you ask." Aiden and Anthony assured her. Suddenly, I got a Skype call from Alpha Julian. I pulled it up and he looked angry, even more so than usual.
"Alpha Julian, what do I owe the pleasure?" I politely asked.
"Is my son-in-law and his brother there?" Julian asked. Brynn quietly got up and Aiden and Anthony came over by me.
"A bag of human bones was dropped off on my packhouse doorsteps this morning. Anita and Dr. Rhodes DNA tested the remains and they are confirmed to be Roman Esperanza's."
F**K!!!
"We pulled the territory cameras and only got a flash on the camera facing the packhouse. I'm sending you the footage now." I waited a moment and checked my email. I pulled it up and sure enough, it was...
"Luca Lombardo!!" I growled out. Anthony's eyes went coal black at seeing him and he immediately took his phone out to call Tessa.
"Aiden when you say magic breaches, what did you mean?" I asked him.
"Senses of being watched, darkness that weakens the magic around the border, we've sensed a couple of other witch beings around the borders of Fire Moon as well." Anthony answered before getting back to his mate.
"It seems Luca now has Blue River in his sights. Alpha Julian, I'll send some Faes to you to keep an eye on your territory and bless it regularly." I assured him.
"And what will you tell the Wizard realm about Roman? Will they target me and my pack since his bones showed up on my doorstep?" Julian challenged.
I know the man is frustrated. And probably exhausted from not only having pack matters to deal with and now this dumped in his lap, but from having an infant at home. "Alpha Julian, I hear you are frustrated and understand what you are saying. I will reach out to the Wizard Chief personally and tell them you have no part of this. You have the footage of Luca directly dropping the bones off on your steps. He all but admitted guilt in Roman's killing with it." I assured him and Julian finally relaxed.
"It's a good thing I listened to Anita a month ago and finally got around to having cameras installed around the packhouse and the paths." Julian told us, which made us raise our eyebrows.
"Luca was there just a few months ago. He'd have known there were no cameras. Alpha Julian, I believe he was trying to set you up." Anthony told us all.
"But why use a dead wizard? Unless...." Julian trailed off and turned as white as a sheet.
"Goddess help us, he's trying to turn the wizard world against the wolves!!" I exclaimed.
"King Arlen, do you even know how to summon the Wizard Chief?" Anthony asked me.
"Only one way to find out." I started to chant in my language, feeling myself glow brightly until...
"WHAT THE HELL!!!" I heard my mate scream at the flowing white entity with dark brown hair that just appeared in my office.
"Tsk tsk, we'll have to watch your mouth out with soap soon, future Fairy Queen!" Aine teased her before winking at her. "Arlen dear, you should have told her what you were doing before you did it!" She laughed at me.
"Goddess Aine, I really need your help to get ahold of the Wizard Chief." I begged her.
"I have already summoned him." Within seconds, another man appeared in my office. He looked like a character from the Lord of the Rings with a dark blue robe and gray hair and beard. And he did not look happy to see us.
"Aine, you and your kind have some explaining to do about why I have a dead wizard!!!" The wizard shouted at us.
"George you old coot, you know damn good and well that Roman Esperanza did not meet his end by either a wolf or a Fae! He was incinerated to bones!!" Aine shouted at him.
"Be that as it may, I see a wolf on the computer box and a bunch of fairies talking to him! There are rumors of a war between the Witch Ruler family and King Arlen! And now one of my favorite wizards is dead!!" George sputtered out.
"At the hands of a relative of the Witch Ruler family. Would you like to see the proof?" I calmly asked the frazzled old man. He came over and I played the video of Luca dropping the bones on Julian's packhouse steps.
"Why take it to the wolf house?" The wizard asked us.
"We believe it was his attempt to frame Alpha Julian and start a war." Aiden answered him.
George narrowed his eyes at all of us and suddenly, whipped his head around to study my mate.
"Just what are you??" He questioned her. Brynn looked at him in confusion and suddenly, George gasped in shock.
"Aine! Who is this young woman!" George commanded her.
"She is the future Fairy Queen. What of it? You know there have been human fairy queens before!" Aine snarked at George. The rest of us looked at the two of them.
"Aine?! You didn't!!" George shouted at her in fury.
"Careful, wizard!" Aine raised her hands to prepare to use her magic on him.
"Someone needs to tell me what the hell is going on right now!" I shouted at them, even though technically I'm powerless against these two.
"You really don't know?" George asked me incredulously.
"KNOW WHAT!!!" I shouted.
"Aine, you tell them or I will!!" George raised his hands. A wizard fairy battle was about to happen right here in my f*****g office!
"Fine!! Brynn, I'm so sorry to tell you this way. I hoped to ease you into this. There was a reason I picked you for Arlen. Your parents were special. They gave you a gift that will make you one of the strongest of our kind."