His Queen of Chaos
People like I'd been, once, in a black dress at a funeral, with a blood debt I'd never agreed to and no one in the entire world to explain my own rights to me.
I'd won the fight, of course. I usually did now. That was the thing nobody warned you about loving the King of Atlanta: you had to be prepared to out-argue him roughly daily, and he liked it, the maddening man, he baited me into it on purpose because watching me win was, by his own flat admission, the second most attractive thing I did.