His Queen of Chaos
And who had then, with the specific arrogance of a man who'd never once been the one on the water at the wrong end of somebody's patience, bought a getaway boat and named it Second Chances like the universe owed him one and would be settling up any day now.
I'd done a great many things in service of the St. James empire that I did not examine in daylight. But I found, watching that gold script catch the first thin edge of dawn, that I was going to sleep just fine after this one.
The sun came up gold on Biscayne Bay, exactly the way it had come up gold on the far edge of the jalousie windows two miles west while a scarred hand rested on a Bible. My burner buzzed. A single line from Zariah, se