His Queen of Chaos
"Always. I'm sorry. I let you have your afternoon and it nearly -"
"Don't." Fierce, into my collar. "Don't you dare take it. That was my choice and Vance's crime and Crowe's evil. Not yours." Her voice broke and re-formed hard. "Where is he. Where's Crowe. He's got an exit, Malik, he said Miami, by Sunday, for one, he -"
Zariah’s POV
I felt the change in him before I heard it, the way his whole body, wrapped around me, went from the desperate softness of a man who'd found the thing he was afraid he'd buried to the flat lethal stillness of the King catching a scent.