His Queen of Chaos
"I don't care what it costs. That man burned my house down, put a hole in a boy I raised, killed a witness who could've cleared her, and taught her, with her own mother's help, I'd put money on it, that she's a plague. I'm going to Miami. I'm going to end it. And if the empire's already dead then let it be dead, but Isaiah Crowe does not get to keep breathing while she sits in some bus station four hundred miles away believing any part of this was her fault."
"And her?" Darius asked. "When it's done. What's the play with her?"
I stood. Wiped the sand off on my ruined slacks. Looked at my split hands, the King's hands, that had done everything in this life except the one thing I wanted, which