His Queen of Chaos
"Then he's mine. And I'm going to make the whole city understand, one more time, what the crown means. Touch her and die. But this time it's going to mean something worse, because this time it's going to be one of our own, and every made man in Atlanta is going to watch what happens to a St. James who points our own crown at the woman I-"
I stopped.
The word had been right there. I'd felt it queue up behind my teeth, easy, natural, true, and I'd caught it a half-second before it walked out into a kitchen full of my people, and the catching of it frightened me more than the pin had. Because a man who has a word like that for a woman has a weakness like that for a woman, and a weakness like th