‘That’s why Neve was so helpful about his wishes for me and the other women. It wasn’t because she was thinking of the Tithe. It had just been and gone and the sidhe like to enjoy the lightness of some long decades before it looms again. No, it was because Neve is always tender to Shift when he comes back. His mother was her sister. Neve treats him harshly sometimes, but these cold-hearted people do love their kin.’
