Whatever he had responded to made Jude stand even straighter and a hand tentatively ran down her front, a nervous gesture that stopped at her stomach. Maybe she was hesitant to laugh at Cardan's apparent slip up. The faerie bowed giving thanks as the court almost paused then he pulled the woman through the crowd. Teetering coming from the throng of bodies.

Jude Duarte, furious after being exiled from her kingdom by the man she loves returns 3 months later to confront him.