His Queen of Chaos
Malik
The war room at the compound was full and grim when I walked in, and it was the fullness of it that told me how far the word had already traveled, every soldier I trusted, every hand that had ever meant it, pulled off whatever they'd been doing and standing at the map because the King's woman was in the wind and the King had gone very, very quiet.
Darius was there, jacket off, gun already in his waistband, the easy grin nowhere on the earth, replaced by the other face, the one my brother wore maybe twice a decade, the one that had made grown men in this city forget how to breathe. Naomi behind three laptops, hair scraped back, tracing plate hits across a glowing city map in threads of