Alle Kapitel von His Queen of Chaos : Kapitel 61 – Kapitel 70

MalikThe silence that followed Alicia’s words was unlike anything I’d ever experienced.No one breathed.No one moved.The bunker, which only moments earlier had been filled with alarms and hurried decisions, now felt frozen in time. Every eye shifted between the satellite phone in Zariah’s trembling hand and Adrian Vale standing only a few feet away.Eden is a person.The words refused to settle into anything that made sense.I looked at Adrian first.For the first time since we’d met him, the carefully controlled smile had disappeared. It wasn’t panic that crossed his face. It was frustration. The kind a man feels when someone reveals information he intended to keep buried.“You shouldn’t have told her.”His voice was calm, but the tension beneath it was unmistakable.The sound of Alicia’s breathing came through the phone again.“I should’ve told her years ago.”“Y

MalikNo one spoke.The woman continued walking through the rain as though thirty armed soldiers weren’t surrounding her. One by one, they stepped aside without being told, creating a clear path across the estate. No one pointed a weapon at her. No one challenged her.They simply moved.I’ve spent most of my life around powerful people.Politicians.Crime bosses.Military officers.Men who believed fear was the same thing as respect.None of them had ever commanded a room the way this woman commanded an army without saying a single word.The security cameras followed her automatically.Each new angle revealed another detail.She couldn’t have been more than twenty-six or twenty-seven years old. Her dark hair hung loose despite the rain, and her black leather jacket looked worn from years of travel. There wasn’t a visible weapon anywhere on her.She didn’t need one.

MalikThe timer began counting down immediately.00:2900:28Every person in the bunker froze.My eyes stayed locked on the small black remote in Adrian’s hand. It looked harmless. Plastic casing. Small digital display. A single blinking red light.Yet judging by the fear on Amara’s face…It was the most dangerous thing in the room.“What did you do?”My voice came out lower than I intended.Adrian smiled.“I finished what Richard started.”The timer continued falling.00:2400:23Amara took another cautious step forward, keeping both hands visible.“Adrian…”Her tone had changed completely.It wasn’t pleading.It was measured.Like someone trying to talk another person away from the edge of a cliff.“Listen to me.”“I’ve listened to you for years.”“No.”She shook her h

MalikNo.The word echoed through my mind before it ever reached my lips.It couldn’t be.I had buried my father.I’d stood beside his grave. I’d listened to the speeches. I’d watched men who feared him pretend they respected him. I had accepted his death because there had never been another choice.Yet the man standing at the end of the hidden corridor looked exactly like Richard St. James.Older.Thinner.More gray in his hair.But unmistakably him.My grip tightened around my pistol.“You’re dead.”The words came out colder than I intended.The man smiled faintly.“So I’ve been told.”His voice hadn’t changed.That deep, controlled tone I’d heard my entire childhood. The voice that could calm a room or terrify it without ever rising above a conversation.For the first time in years…I wanted him to be a stranger

MalikNo one spoke after the announcement.The words echoed through every speaker in the bunker long after the officer lowered his megaphone.”…Bring us Subject Eden.”The silence that followed felt heavier than the concrete surrounding us.I watched Zariah out of the corner of my eye.Her face had gone pale, but she didn’t look frightened anymore.She looked angry.There was a difference.For weeks, people had spoken about her as though she were an object to be found, protected, stolen, or controlled. Every new revelation seemed to strip away another piece of the life she’d built for herself.Now the government had given her a number instead of a name.Subject.I hated it more than I expected.Darius muted the speakers before looking around the bunker.“So…”He rubbed the back of his neck.“…I’m guessing surrender isn’t an option.”“No.”Richard answered immediately.“It never has been.”Gabriel folded his arms.“If they know Eden exists…”“They won’t stop.”Richard nodded.“Exactly.