Chapter 21 Tia I would never go back on a promise to my fae, Tierney. Those words had stuck in Tierney’s head since the moment they dropped from Keir’s lips. Because she believed them. Every moment she spent with him only proved one thing: he could be trusted to do what was right. “How can you not be sure yet?” She paced from one end of her room to the other and back again. “He has shown you nothing that proves he will use the danger to all of Lenya as an excuse to destroy Grima.” Bronagh sat on the settee, bent over with her head in her hands. At that moment, she looked nothing like the queen she was. Each passing day posing as a maid wore on her, Tierney could see it. She needed to be back with her people, to lead them. But the best way to lead them right now was to discover if the

