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Author: Amaka
last update publish date: 2026-05-08 20:41:15
đŸ–€ Jacob đŸ–€

“You’re back so fast,” I muttered the moment I opened the front door.

That was all I managed to say before Alexandra crashed into me.

Actually crashed.

No warning.

No cold stare.

No sarcastic comment.

She just threw herself into my arms like her body already decided where it wanted to be before her brain could argue against it.

I caught her instantly, my hands gripping her waist before pulling her fully against me.

And then she spoke.

“Tears came out of my eyes today.”

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  • Chaos Is My Crown   130

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€Fuck you, Alexandra. How dare you get your panties soaked just from his forehead on yours?I stood in front of the mirror in the hospital’s ladies’ room, both palms braced against the cold porcelain sink, and glared at my own reflection like it had personally betrayed me. Which, in a sense, it had.How dare you get like that just because his forehead was on yours. I pointed at myself in the mirror, fully aware I had lost whatever was left of my dignity the second I started lecturing my own reflection out loud. What the heck, woman.I could control my heart. Life had taught me exactly how to lock that particular door and walk away from it. I could control my brain. God knows I’d spent half a decade proving that, building a whole new empire back up from nothing while raising four children mostly alone, no breakdowns, no slipping. But my body, specifically my pussy apparently, had never gotten the memo that Jacob Grey was supposed to be a closed case.It was like I tur

  • Chaos Is My Crown   129

    đŸ–€Jacob đŸ–€â€œEverything about Amara’s financial records was traced back to Stella,” I said. “Which is impossible because Stella is sitting in your custody.”She turned, and I watched the last soft edges of the woman who’d just held our children disappear behind something colder, something I recognized instantly even after five years, because I used to be the only person alive who got to see this version of her up close.“Then I need to torture the truth out of Amara,” she said. “Enough mind games. I want her alone, I want her scared, and I want her talking inside the hour.”The old Lex. No performance in it, no hesitation, just pure clean intention with all the softness stripped out of her voice like she’d peeled it off on purpose.God help me.“Is it weird,” I said, before I could stop myself, “that I like this version of you better?”She went still. Just for a second. Long enough that I knew the question had actually landed somewhere instead of bouncing off her.“Excuse me?”“You hea

  • Chaos Is My Crown   128

    đŸ–€ Jacob đŸ–€Lex had barely finished saying help me find out who turned your mistake into a weapon before my phone started buzzing in my pocket, and some old instinct in me the one that had kept me alive for five years of running went cold before I even looked at the screen.Jack.I stepped a few feet further down the corridor before I answered, some reflex of keeping the worst of my life at arm’s length from Lex still firing even now, even after everything.“Talk to me,” I said.“Boss, you need to sit down for this.” Jack’s voice had none of its usual flatness. That alone told me everything I needed to know about how bad it was about to get. “I pulled Amara’s financials like you asked. Followed the money backward.”“And?”“She’s been getting paid two ways. One small transfer, monthly, from an account I’m ninety percent sure traces back to you the videos, the arrangement, whatever you had going. That part’s clean. That part makes sense.”“And the other way?”“The other way is bigger. A

  • Chaos Is My Crown   127

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€â€œThank you,” Jacob muttered, the second we got outside the ward.He pulled me into his arms before I had time to decide whether I wanted to let him.“Thank you for keeping me alive in their little minds,” he murmured against my ear, his hold tightening like he was afraid I might disappear if he loosened it even slightly. “Thank you for showing them what I look like.”I let myself stay there for exactly three seconds longer than I should have. Three seconds of his heartbeat against my ear, three seconds of a smell I hadn’t let myself remember in years, three seconds where the only thing that existed was the relief of two children breathing on their own and a man who hadn’t disappeared completely, no matter how hard he’d tried.Then I pulled myself out of his arms, because three seconds was already three seconds too many.“You don’t need to thank me,” I said, stepping back, putting air between us where his arms had just been. “They exist because of your obsession with me

  • Chaos Is My Crown   126

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€I had braced myself for a lot of things when Caleb dropped my other two babies this morning. I had not braced myself for this.I stood by the window with my arms crossed, not because I was cold, but because I needed somewhere to put my hands that wasn’t reaching for something I hadn’t decided yet whether I was allowed to want, and I watched Jacob fold to his knees on a hospital floor with two of our children wrapped around him like he’d never left.Daddy’s back from the trip.I had built that lie so carefully, so many years ago, the first time Freddy asked where his father was and I couldn’t make myself say the truth out loud to a two-year-old. Working very far away. I’d told myself it was a kindness. Tonight, watching it land exactly the way I’d designed it to land watching my son cling to Jacob’s leg like gravity itself had finally been corrected I understood for the first time that it hadn’t only been a kindness to them.It had been a door I left open for myself,

  • Chaos Is My Crown   125

    đŸ–€ Jacob đŸ–€When I walked through that door, five sets of eyes turned toward me at once, and for one full second nobody in that room moved at all.Lex’s face I could read instantly careful, watching, waiting to see what I’d do before she decided what she would. But it was the four small faces that undid me, because they all wore the exact same expression for the exact same heartbeat: confusion. The polite, searching confusion of children trying to place a face they almost recognized but couldn’t yet.And then one of them the little girl closest to the foot of the bed, the one with my eyes, my exact eyes, set in a face that was unmistakably half her mother’s broke first.“Daddy?”The word came out small and unsure, more question than statement, like she was testing whether the word even belonged in this room. And God help me, I lost my breath completely. Five years. Five years and I still recognized myself looking back at me out of a five-year-old’s face, and she knew me. She knew me.

  • Chaos Is My Crown   106

    đŸ–€ Jacob đŸ–€I wasn’t supposed to come today. God knows I tried not to. I had spent five years staying away. Five years honoring the only thing Alexandra ever asked from me.Leave. So I left. I left the city, left the country, left the life I knew.But when I saw her name attached to this conference

  • Chaos Is My Crown   105

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€â€œPlease put your hands together as we welcome the woman who changed medical history in America and created one of the biggest breakthroughs of the decade. The one and only Alexandra Fisher Hale!”The presenter’s voice echoed through the massive auditorium. The applause was instant,

  • Chaos Is My Crown   104

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€â€œSeriously sis do you have to go on this business trip?” Michelle’s voice carried dramatic suffering as she sat cross legged on my bed looking personally betrayed by life itself.I looked up from my suitcase slowly before raising one eyebrow at her.“You’re acting like I announced m

  • Chaos Is My Crown   103

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€ *Five years later* “Mommy we are hungry” Papa said it before I even entered the living room properly. I stopped mid step. Slowly turned my head. And there he was. Sitting in his wheelchair like some royal troublemaker who had discovered comedy as a coping mechanism. He had his

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