Mikael discovers Esther's treachery of having sold his daughter to her sister in exchange for children and seeks to recover Freya in the Old World; after a brutal divorce where Mikael takes his children with Ayana's aid and flees from Esther. Dahlia forms an alliance with Mikael though when she discovers a second and third witch child in Mikael's bloodline; and a secret of Esther's own bloodline. Betrayed and infuriated, Esther casts a curse upon her own blood, leading Mikael and Dahlia to forge a spell for immortality until the curse can be broken.