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Autor: Amaka
last update Data de publicação: 2026-05-15 21:08:11

đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€

My new home felt unusually quiet after tonight’s chaos. Which honestly annoyed me because silence gives people time to think and right now my brain was already doing too much of that.

The moment we got back home, Alpha Team spread themselves around the property while Jen coordinated security downstairs. Apparently after tonight everyone suddenly believed I was fragile because I was pregnant.

Ridiculous behavior honestly.

I was sitting on the massive couch inside the living room
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  • Chaos Is My Crown   124

    đŸ–€ Jacob đŸ–€I knew this was going to come back and bite me.I sat on the edge of the bed in the Airbnb Jack had rented for me furnished, generic, smelling faintly of someone else’s air freshener and stared at my phone like it might rearrange the words on the screen if I looked at it long enough. It didn’t. Why is your name on the referral that got Amara into my house four years ago? Twelve words. Twelve words that had just reached backward and dug their fingers into a decision I made when I still had the right to make decisions about my own family.I called Jack before I let myself think about what I was going to say to her.“Jack. I need you to dig into Amara for me. The girl I asked you to place in my ex-wife’s house, four years back.”“Okay, boss.” No hesitation. No follow-up questions. Jack had worked for me long enough to know exactly which Amara, exactly which house, exactly what “dig into her” meant when it came out of my mouth at five in the morning with my voice this tight. T

  • Chaos Is My Crown   123

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€ Jen arrived two hours and fifty-eight minutes after I called her, which I noted only because Jen was always early, never on time, and the fact that she walked through that door at the absolute edge of the window I’d given her told me she’d hit traffic, or hadn’t slept at all, or both. She had a tablet in one hand and a coffee in the other, and she stopped just inside the doorway to look at the kids first, the way every decent person did before they looked at me, before they got to business. “They’re breathing on their own,” I said before she could ask. “Thank God.” She exhaled, set the coffee down, and pulled a chair close. “Okay. Where do you want to start?” “Everything,” I said. “From five years ago to right now. I want names, dates, contracts, anyone brought in, anyone removed, every shift in personnel around this family that I wasn’t paying attention to because I was busy pretending I’d retired from all of it.” Jen didn’t blink at the tone. She just opened the

  • Chaos Is My Crown   122

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€I walked back into Room 14 and pulled the chair back into the small gap between both beds, the same chair Jacob had been sitting in earlier, still slightly warm from where he’d been, and I sat down and took one small hand in each of mine the way I had hours ago, like nothing had moved at all, even though everything had.Loveth’s fingers curled slightly around mine in her sleep.Dean’s chest rose and fell with the steady mechanical rhythm of the ventilator, that quiet hiss and click that I had stopped hearing as a sound and started hearing as a countdown, though I couldn’t have told you toward what.I watched them both for a long time and let my mind, against my own permission, drift toward the version of tonight where things had gone differently. Where the call had come too late. Where there had been nothing left for anyone to do.I let myself feel the full weight of that for exactly one breath.Then I closed the door on it, the way I closed the door on everything I co

  • Chaos Is My Crown   121

    đŸ–€ Jacob đŸ–€That banter or maybe I should just call it what it actually was, a simple yet sweet conversation was something I genuinely had not been expecting tonight.Not after the slap.Not after Chairman Fisher told me to leave the room like I was a delivery boy who had overstayed his welcome.Not after everything else that had happened in the last several hours, which, when I actually stopped to count it all up, was an amount of chaos that most people don’t experience in a full year, let alone one night.But there we were. Me with my terrible vending machine coffee. Her sitting across from me with that look on her face that said she was choosing, deliberately, to let the moment be light instead of heavy. And somehow it worked. Somehow for one entire minute the weight of everything else the children on ventilators, Stella’s missing legs, the mystery caller, Amara typing at three thirty in the morning somehow all of that stepped back just far enough to let two people who used to know

  • Chaos Is My Crown   120

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€I found Jacob exactly where I expected to find him. Not by Stella’s room, not by the elevator pretending he was about to leave the hospital like a reasonable person who had just been dismissed by a wheelchair-bound mafia chairman, but in the small visitor’s lounge near the children’s ward, sitting in one of those terrible plastic chairs with a vending machine coffee in his hand that he was very clearly not drinking.He looked up when I walked in.“So,” he said, “your dad threatened me with his eyes for a full three minutes before he even started talking.”“That’s restraint, actually,” I said, sitting down across from him. “Normally people get the eyes for thirty seconds before he moves on to actual words.”“I feel so honored.”“You should.”He looked down at the coffee in his hand like it had personally wronged him.“This is the worst coffee I have ever had in my life,” he said. “And I once drank something a flight attendant handed me during turbulence that I’m fairly

  • Chaos Is My Crown   119

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€â€œAre you going to tell me what’s going on?” I asked the moment the door shut behind Jacob.Papa didn’t answer immediately.He sat there for a moment with his hands still folded in his lap, his eyes fixed on some point past my shoulder, and I recognized that look one he got right before he told you something that he himself was still angry about, the kind of anger that hadn’t cooled down enough yet to be delivered calmly.Then he started talking.“The girl said something about someone approaching her with a good offer,” he said, and his voice carried that specific edge that I had only heard a handful of times in my entire life, the one reserved for things that genuinely offended him on a personal level rather than just inconvenienced him. “All she had to do was shake up our family. That’s how she put it. Shake up. As if she was describing a cocktail recipe and not five years of orchestrated destruction.”I felt my jaw tighten.“She said she never intended to kill anyon

  • Chaos Is My Crown   107

    đŸ–€ Alexandra đŸ–€I genuinely didn’t know what came over me. Seriously.What kind of temporary insanity possessed me to ask Jacob Grey out for a drink?A drink with Jacob after everything, after five fucking years and finally getting my life together. What exactly was wrong with me?I stood in front

  • 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

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