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with you.”
    Despite what Serena had done to him and fighting the urge to believe her when she said she was sorry for putting him to sleep and giving him this headache to rival any other, he didn’t want her harmed.
    Maybe it had been the kiss she’d given him that swayed his thinking.
    “If I do something for you, will you help me to escape?” she whispered.
    His jaw dropped. She had to be kidding.
     
     
     

Chapter 4
     
    As soon as Serena found herself in irons in a lion fae cell, she knew she was in real trouble. But she’d put on airs that none of this mattered to her in the least. She wouldn’t beg Niall, although if he didn’t agree to rescue her, she was considering doing just that.
    “Hurry,” she said, her voice hushed, knowing that most likely someone from the dark fae court hidden from her view outside the cell was trying to hear everything she and Niall talked about.
    As if he was trying to humor her, Niall said in a conspiratorial whisper back, “What would you give me that would convince me to free you?” He looked as though he was fighting a smile.
    But he also was so nearly out of it because of the potion she’d dosed him with, that he had to sit on the bed at her feet and looked as though he could lie down right beside her and sleep another forty hours. She had a reputation for making extremely powerful sleeping potions.
    “I will eliminate any of the side effects that you suffer from because of the sleeping powder that I had blasted you with. I must warn you, the effects can last up to two months or even longer.”
    He sat up a little straighter, his eyes widening fractionally.
    Yeah, he was interested all right.
    “But the antidote I have is not with me.”
    He gave her a look like that figured.
    She lifted her shoulder in a slight shrug. “It would not do to carry the antidote with me if others could wrest it away from me and counter the effect of the drug. So I would have to take you with me to the place where I keep my supply.”
    He gave her a small smile and an even slighter shake of his head. “Next, you will have to deal with Queen Irenis herself.” He rose from the bed too suddenly, and he nearly collapsed, cursed under his breath, and grabbed the bed to take his seat again.
    “The antidote will remove all the effects of the drug, I swear it,” she whispered, as she heard footfalls approaching the cell.
    Someone else would interrogate her, and she knew he would not go easy on her. She would have to admit she was the princess before long, and all would be lost.
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    Never in a million years would Niall consider removing a prisoner from a cell when the queen had ordered the prisoner put there. Never. But no way could he continue to feel as if he was on a drugged–out binge, unable to function properly no matter how hard he tried. For two months or longer? He couldn’t deal with feeling like this for that long.
    “If you are lying to me…,” he said softly with a hint of dark warning. He would strangle her himself.
    “I am not lying to you,” she said, reaching her manacled wrists out to him.
    The queen would terminate him herself if she knew what he was now considering on doing, but he couldn’t live like this either. He only hoped he could convince his aunt someday that he had no choice but to do what he was about to do. He headed for the wrought iron hook that held the key to the manacles and the cell.
    He rushed back to the bed with the key to the manacles in hand. “They will be listening.”
    “The message states that I wish the queen well on her birthday,” Serena said for all to hear.
    Niall looked up from the manacles he was unlocking to see Serena’s expression. She was smiling.
    He let out his breath, pulled the manacles away, but not before he seized one of her wrists. If she fae traveled, she was taking him with her.
    Footfalls reached the door, and the bolt was thrown open.
    The winged fae vanished in the way of fae travel, only this time taking