Preface
In 1756 in a small village in America, Amelia Werthington fell in love with Leonard Cain and they got married in 1758. The two lovers, in addition to being young, possessed the power of magic that they kept secret because at that time the word magician led someone to execution without even a trial.
The two young people longed to complete their family with a child, but no matter how hard they tried, they didn't succeed. Amelia soon let her melancholy overwhelm her and in desperation Leonard sought the help of Sophie Perk. Sophie was Amelia's childhood friend, and a powerful witch who came from a powerful family and gave Leonard the only solution that could help them. In a book of Sophie spells, there was a spell that could give them the coveted child, but there was a big problem. The product of this magic would be a dark creature that would not have the power to love, a lifeless, devilish creature that would have to be controlled for a lifetime.
Sophie warned him that the first child of two witches is usually the most powerful and that she didn't know if they would ever be able to control the child, but Leonard was determined to get his wife out of grief and gathered everything necessary for the spell. . Amelia was full of hope and from sadness she went to paranoia, she read the spell all day, she had almost memorized it until she reached the last ingredient. The heart of a loved one. The couple, who had now gone beyond the bounds of reason and without thinking, killed Sophie and sacrificed her for the spell which had an effect and nine months later they were holding in their hands their only son named Derek.
Little was known about Derek's childhood since his parents kept him protected until he was 17 years old. At the age of 17 he killed his parents and left the small village forever, which was now too little for his own ambitions.
From 1790 to 1852 Derek gained power and many followers. The spell had blessed him with incredible beauty and grace that made him almost immediately beloved by his followers to the point where they glorified him as a god. He had black hair, bright blue eyes and his skin was flawless like porcelain.
For decades he terrorized the entire magical world and killed without hesitation in order to become the leader of the entire magical community. However, as his power grew, so did his adversaries, who soon spread to all parts of the earth, and each time he met his adversaries, it was led to bloodshed.
Derek, however, in addition to strength began to show unnatural longevity, his enemies and allies were aging and dying, but he stopped growing old at the age of 40 and went down in history as the scariest and strongest witch in history.
Blinded by his vanity and as his opponents' army grew, he found a way to build his own army of soldiers he considered the best, his own children. He found strong witches and waited until they gave him his first child, killed the mother and disappeared forever with the baby. His children were raised by families of his followers and he marked them with a star on their left wrist. The sign meant that among his followers they were the most important but they were forever submissive to him.
In 1995, in one of the biggest battles, Derek's army is destroyed and he is mortally wounded, that day everyone believed that maybe their nightmare would end once and for all, but they were wrong. Back at his headquarters a large castle awaited his youngest child, his one-month-old child and one of his most loyal followers who gave him the idea to tie his life to the baby's and heal him. As long as his life was tied to the child and the child was magically protected then he too would survive.
Derek followed her advice and survived and continued to build his army only this time tying his life with every baby, creating his own safety valve that would secure him eternal life. In 2001 he charmed Erica Marshall, the Marshall family was the strongest magical family in recent years and Erica believed that Derek could indeed change. She told him that she would leave her family only if he married her and left behind the black magic.
Derek accepted and stayed close to Erika for a year, but seeing that the child he wanted was not coming, he tried to kill her to continue his paranoid plan. However, Erica was probably the only one who could repel his power and after a short battle she managed to hurt him and run away from his castle.
Derek, however, was confronted with something he had not taken into account, Erika's family. Once again he was forced to save his one-year-old son and his faithful follower who had proved herself valuable and to run away and from that day he disappeared. For the months that followed everyone knew that the nightmare was not over but at least for now they had won. What no one knew was that while for months everyone was investigating Derek's disappearance in a small hut in the middle of nowhere, Erika, with the help of her family, gave birth to a healthy baby girl, her eldest daughter, Jenna Marshall.