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Author: Amaka
last update publish date: 2026-06-29 20:34:51

šŸ–¤ Alexandra šŸ–¤

ā€œHi, Papa,ā€ I greeted, walking into his home office after making sure my babies were tucked in bed, safe, sleeping, alive in a way that had felt impossible just hours earlier today.

ā€œI was told you went back to work,ā€ Papa said, smiling without looking up from the files spread across his desk, the lamp light catching the silver at his temples in a way that made him look older than he had the last time I’d sat in this room.

ā€œAnd I was surprised by how much I missed that lifestyle
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Angelamarie
Yes but still not to the point that we know who is who, all the little bits are becoming bigger ones but the outcome is still not clear the best kind.
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Amaka
I’m glad u got some right, the book is all coming together.
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Angelamarie
Ooh, so I got some right, coma Stella wasn't Stella, that Lexi's family wasn't the target, Dada died for nothing but then again she set them up to get married so still part of the issue.. 90% is all about the Grey's but the mastermind still isn't clear.
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    šŸ–¤ Alexandra šŸ–¤ā€œSame time next week,ā€ I’d said, like it was simple, like it was just a sentence and not the kind of promise that rearranges something quietly in your chest when you make it.Jacob had smiled at me the way he’d been smiling at me all day the one that didn’t have any performance behind it, the one I remembered from before everything and then he’d crouched down to say goodbye to each of the kids individually, and I’d stood there watching him do it and trying very hard not to feel every single thing I was currently feeling.My phone buzzed in my pocket.I pulled it out, half expecting Jen, half expecting a Saito update, and saw Papa’s name on the screen instead.{I found Stella.}Three words. I read them twice, standing in the golden late-afternoon light of a park where my children had just watched their father accidentally kiss me and announced it to the entire surrounding area, and felt the day split cleanly in half the soft, uncomplicated half that was ending, and the

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 140

    šŸ–¤ Alexandra šŸ–¤I want his lips on mine. The thought arrived completely uninvited, sitting itself down in the middle of my brain with the casual confidence of something that belonged there, while I stood in the doorway watching Jacob crouch down and kiss each of my babies on the forehead, one after the other, Loveth first, then Freddy, then Dean, then Lilly, who grabbed his face with both hands and kissed him back on the nose before he could straighten up.God, Lex. Get your head out of the gutter.I crossed my arms and made my face do something neutral while Jacob stood up, and the kids swarmed around him the way they’d been doing all week like gravity had simply reassigned itself the moment he came back into their orbit, and everything now naturally tilted in his direction without asking anyone’s permission first.ā€œHave fun, guys,ā€ I said, already stepping back toward the door, already constructing the next three hours in my head files, calls, the Saito update Papa had promised me b

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 139

    šŸ–¤ Jacob šŸ–¤The second Jack’s ā€œUnderstood, bossā€ landed in the air between us, something else landed right alongside it something I hadn’t let myself think about until exactly this moment, maybe because the Grey family revelation had shoved everything else clean out of my head the moment it hit.I stood there with my jacket half on and my car keys in my hand, and let the full shape of what I was now holding settle into place.My grandparents. My parents. All of them, apparently, moving freely through the world while I’d spent five years visiting an empty stage set and believing I was maintaining a relationship and even felt guilty for keeping g them there. All of them knowing exactly where Stella was and what she was doing and choosing, month after month after careful month, to perform confusion and frailty for my benefit while she used everything the Grey name had ever stood for to build something I hadn’t even known existed until last week.And they were just out there. Right now. S

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 138

    šŸ–¤ Jacob šŸ–¤One full week. Seven days of round-the-clock digging, seven days of Jack and my new team running down every lead, every shell company, every ghost address that Stella’s name had ever been attached to and nothing. She was everywhere in the paperwork and nowhere in the world. The woman had built herself a life so thoroughly off the visible grid that even people whose entire profession was finding the unfindable were coming back empty-handed.The fake Stella in Lex’s custody still hadn’t woken up. Which meant the one person physically within our reach, the one person who could theoretically give us a room number, a city, a single concrete detail about where the real Stella was operating from, was still lying in a hospital bed doing absolutely nothing useful for anyone.I’d spent the week at the Airbnb Jack had extended indefinitely, working through files during the day and driving to see the kids every evening, which was the only part of any given twenty-four hours that felt

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 137

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  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 136

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