Talk:Meredith/@comment-63.241.189.4-20130907191948/@comment-71.75.168.204-20130917010751

It wasn't her ex-husband but her ex-fiance Griffin. He was a cheater who took advantage of being let loose of the geas(command/order) the queen put on her guards. He was supposed to be only her lover, and this was years before the setting in the first book. Cheating on her and looking down on her power, making her doubt herself, while he caroused through the sidhe women of the court was what he did and why Merry and the men hate him in the present time of the first book. He later goes on to spread photos and secrets from their previous relationship to the press/reporters and that makes him be chased by the queen since it was a serious betrayal. In a later book it was revealed that Merry's father, Essus set her up specifically with Griffin who was a Queen's Raven, instead of another Queen's Raven like Galen, Doyle, Frost, Rhys, etc. He set them up together because their powers complemented each others, since they both have sexual powers.