Die With Aldric

"I wasn't able to figure out her reasons back then, but now I know," the Fae explained to him. "Queen Maeve couldn't accept that your mother was King Oberon's mate and his favorite. She found a way to remove her—without getting her hands dirty. What better way than to hand her over to the Dark Fae, who had a vendetta against your father for hunting down their kind?"

He went on to say, "We handled the dirty work, ensuring your mother's travel details fell into the wrong hands. I had a change of heart centuries later. I wanted to reveal the truth, but Queen Maeve discovered my intentions. She framed me, turned my own people against me. The next thing I knew, I was hunted as a criminal. I survived, but barely. I became the most dangerous fugitive in the kingdom, and King Oberon himself was hunting me. I told him the truth, but he attacked me instead. He didn't expose it. Instead, he froze and locked me in the Cold Room, where I stayed until I escaped."