His Queen of Chaos
"You came back. I told them. I told 'em you'd come back. Everybody in here was walking around like a funeral for four days and I kept saying, the lady owes me a cake, she's not gonna skip town on a cake -"
"Buttercream," Zariah said, not looking up from the maps, and I watched the corner of her mouth move for the first time in four days. "You'll have it. Now shut up and heal, I need Darius's brain and he can't use it while he's worrying about yours."
"She's back," Little J said, to the ceiling, deeply satisfied, and subsided.
Zariah’s POV
I laid it out on the war table the way I'd once diagrammed a hostile takeover in a seminar room, boxes and arrows, my father's beautiful handwriting on a l