His Queen of Chaos
And Naomi's voice came sharp and wrong in Malik's ear, loud enough that I, pressed to his chest, heard the tin of it: "He's running, north dock, Crowe's got a car, he's rabbiting,"
Malik's head came up. I felt the war go through him in a single second, the man who wanted to rise off this floor and chase Isaiah Crowe into the dark and end the whole thing forever, against the man who would not for one instant more leave my side. His arm tightened around me like an oath. His eyes cut toward the north dock, toward the escaping thing he'd wanted for six weeks, toward the sunrise a murderer was driving toward.
And Little J, twenty-six years old, who'd checked his loads with hands that would not le