His Queen of Chaos
"That's two legs, King. The stool's on the ground. All that's left is the time, and Rhee's moving faster than Crowe can. By tomorrow morning, Isaiah Crowe is going to be a man on a forty-two-foot boat with four soldiers and no city behind him."
"And then?" I asked. Because I already knew and then. I wanted to hear the shape of it in her voice, so I'd know exactly what she was choosing, and exactly what she wasn't.
"And then that part isn't mine," she said quietly, and looked out the windshield at the bright ugly Miami afternoon. "But I built you the room to do it in. Clean. No thread on you, no thread on me. I peeled him down to a man on a boat." Her jaw set. "The rest is between you and wha