Board Thread:Spoilers/@comment-3125844-20150123235427/@comment-2202172-20150211201622

Adalind and Renard have both traveled differnet arcs since they were aligned in the beginning of the series.

Renard used Adalind and her mother as pawns in his schemes. But over time, Renard has learned to respect Nick too much to keep trying to thwart him or to try useing him. Nick has become too valuable as an ally and powerful enough in his own right to stand up to Renard if he were to make him an enemy. Renard and Nick have become a powerful assets for each other.

Adalind has been a pawn, used by everyone she's dealt with. Personally, she's spoiled and vindictive but also grudgingly submissive to whomever is holding her leash. Her feud with Nick and Juliette started as Renard's minion, Renard's half brother's minion (the name escapes me) and then as Viktor's minion. Her attempt to turn the tables and take inititve in getting her powers back by getting herself knocked up by a royal then selling the baby both worked and backfired. She got her powers back, but couldn't stay emotionally detached from Diana to part with her, and in the end just fell back into being a pawn to the royals. If she had tried to keep the child, both the resistance and royals would have hunted her, and neither would have wanted to keep Adalind around once they had the child. Ultimately she's a tragic figure that can't escape her status of being a slave to a royal. And she'll eventually take a bullet on their behalf.

-DavicusPrime