His Queen of Chaos
But her voice had reached into the black narrow place where the thing in the mirror lived and put one hand flat on its chest, the way she'd been doing since a funeral six weeks ago, and the King who had never once in his life failed to finish a thing he'd started stood in a doorway with a traitor in his sights and chose her over the killing.
"Get off her," I said. Low. Level. The King's voice, barely. "Slow. Hands where they live."
Vance rolled off her and put his back to the wall and laced his hands on his head, and Little J was on him in a breath, zip cuffs out, and I crossed the room in three strides and dropped to my knees on the cold concrete and gathered her up, tied wrists and blood a