His Queen of Chaos
Zariah
The doubt was in me now, and it would not leave, and it poisoned everything it touched.
That was the worst of it, not that I believed Tasha, because I didn't, not clean, not all the way through. I'd caught the tell. I'd watched my mother's eyes flick down and left at the one question that mattered, and I knew, with the professional certainty I'd built my whole self on, that I'd been read a script. Belief wasn't the poison. The poison was doubt, and doubt didn't need belief to do its work. Doubt only needed a crack.