“I cannot blame you for being angry,” he says. “But we have been angry at each other for too long, Jude. You’re not the fool I took you for, and for my part, I don’t want to hurt you. You’re the High Queen of Faerie. Whatever you did to get there, I can only applaud it.” He might not want to hurt me, but that doesn’t mean he won’t. “She is the queen,” Taryn says. “The only reason she didn’t die out in the snow is that the land healed her.”

