Marie has lost her CO and her mate. Bella has lost her daughters, Iris and Alexandria. Beginning to fear the girls father as he rises to power she tries to leave him, however, their father, Having lost his mind to power and splitting his soul multiple times, bound her to himself so that she could not turn against him. After his defeat, she begins relaxing more. Believing her children are dead she leave the UK and spends her time in the States. But upon finding that he is trying to return, she quickly finds a loop hole in the spell that had been used to bound her to himself.