“What we’re saying is that it’s impossible for the ones you believed to be your parents to be who you remember them to be.” King Valyn’s tone was softer than what I even imagined him being able to accomplish. “Or they were not your parents at all. Because we know who one of them was.” The sympathy that radiated from the Queen nearly choked me. “Malec had to have been your father, Penellaphe.”

