Simeon Pain gripped me in a never-ending flow. I couldn't tell where it started, and it had no end. Then delicate lips, like a butterfly's wings, had touched mine. Giving me strength and hope. Avery's scream stirred something in me. I had to help her. I'd waited my whole life for the queen - for her. Searched both the realms of the Fae and the human world with Malcolm's crazy idea of opening three bars and testing the women we thought would be the queen with the Queen's golden nectar. A scared flower would tell us with her passing out, that she was the one. It didn't harm other Fae or human women. Just made them giddy. I believed as soon as I saw her, that she had to be the one we had searched for. I had been right. I cracked my eyes open against the pain, my head splitting open from t