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Author: Amaka
last update publish date: 2026-04-03 19:14:12

šŸ–¤ Jacob šŸ–¤

ā€œYou’re ten minutes early, President Alexandra.ā€

I leaned back slightly in my chair, a slow smirk forming on my lips as I took her in properly, because yeah… I was still not over the fact that she was actually here. Sitting right across from me, looking all sexy in my office. At seven in the morning like this was a normal meeting and not the start of something way bigger.

The building was quiet. Too quiet. No staff yet, just security downstairs and Timmy somewhere pretending not to
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Alexandra, is one smooth, kool operator. Loved how she played him.
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    šŸ–¤ Alexandra šŸ–¤ā€œSame time next week,ā€ I’d said, like it was simple, like it was just a sentence and not the kind of promise that rearranges something quietly in your chest when you make it.Jacob had smiled at me the way he’d been smiling at me all day the one that didn’t have any performance behind it, the one I remembered from before everything and then he’d crouched down to say goodbye to each of the kids individually, and I’d stood there watching him do it and trying very hard not to feel every single thing I was currently feeling.My phone buzzed in my pocket.I pulled it out, half expecting Jen, half expecting a Saito update, and saw Papa’s name on the screen instead.{I found Stella.}Three words. I read them twice, standing in the golden late-afternoon light of a park where my children had just watched their father accidentally kiss me and announced it to the entire surrounding area, and felt the day split cleanly in half the soft, uncomplicated half that was ending, and the

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 140

    šŸ–¤ Alexandra šŸ–¤I want his lips on mine. The thought arrived completely uninvited, sitting itself down in the middle of my brain with the casual confidence of something that belonged there, while I stood in the doorway watching Jacob crouch down and kiss each of my babies on the forehead, one after the other, Loveth first, then Freddy, then Dean, then Lilly, who grabbed his face with both hands and kissed him back on the nose before he could straighten up.God, Lex. Get your head out of the gutter.I crossed my arms and made my face do something neutral while Jacob stood up, and the kids swarmed around him the way they’d been doing all week like gravity had simply reassigned itself the moment he came back into their orbit, and everything now naturally tilted in his direction without asking anyone’s permission first.ā€œHave fun, guys,ā€ I said, already stepping back toward the door, already constructing the next three hours in my head files, calls, the Saito update Papa had promised me b

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 139

    šŸ–¤ Jacob šŸ–¤The second Jack’s ā€œUnderstood, bossā€ landed in the air between us, something else landed right alongside it something I hadn’t let myself think about until exactly this moment, maybe because the Grey family revelation had shoved everything else clean out of my head the moment it hit.I stood there with my jacket half on and my car keys in my hand, and let the full shape of what I was now holding settle into place.My grandparents. My parents. All of them, apparently, moving freely through the world while I’d spent five years visiting an empty stage set and believing I was maintaining a relationship and even felt guilty for keeping g them there. All of them knowing exactly where Stella was and what she was doing and choosing, month after month after careful month, to perform confusion and frailty for my benefit while she used everything the Grey name had ever stood for to build something I hadn’t even known existed until last week.And they were just out there. Right now. S

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 138

    šŸ–¤ Jacob šŸ–¤One full week. Seven days of round-the-clock digging, seven days of Jack and my new team running down every lead, every shell company, every ghost address that Stella’s name had ever been attached to and nothing. She was everywhere in the paperwork and nowhere in the world. The woman had built herself a life so thoroughly off the visible grid that even people whose entire profession was finding the unfindable were coming back empty-handed.The fake Stella in Lex’s custody still hadn’t woken up. Which meant the one person physically within our reach, the one person who could theoretically give us a room number, a city, a single concrete detail about where the real Stella was operating from, was still lying in a hospital bed doing absolutely nothing useful for anyone.I’d spent the week at the Airbnb Jack had extended indefinitely, working through files during the day and driving to see the kids every evening, which was the only part of any given twenty-four hours that felt

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 137

    šŸ–¤ Jacob šŸ–¤She took my home from me.I’d said it to Lex on the phone before I fully understood how true it was, and now, sitting alone in an Airbnb that wasn’t mine with a folder full of my father’s betrayal still open on the table in front of me, I understood it completely.Stella hadn’t just dismantled the Grey family business. She’d used the Fisher-Hale family’s own power to do it Lex’s family, the family I’d married into, the family I’d loved enough to lose everything else for. My sister had reached across two empires, turned one against the other, and walked away with the only thing that actually mattered to her: control of everything both families had spent generations building.This shit is till unbelievable, how did she plan this? And what if my father being involved is also a lie? God I don’t even know what to believe anymore.I sat back in the cheap kitchen chair and pressed the heels of my hands against my eyes until colored static bloomed behind them.Five years of belie

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 136

    šŸ–¤ Alexandra šŸ–¤Stella is a pure evil genius. I have to give her that much, even sitting here furious enough to put my fist through a wall. How does one woman play this many people her own family included, and make every single move look like grief, like coincidence, like bad luck, instead of what it actually was?I walked out of Papa’s office with the entire sack of files he’d handed me, and instead of going to my room, I went straight to my own office down the hall the one I’d had set up here since I was a teenager, separate from the basement office downtown, because some habits of needing my own space to think had started long before I ever needed an empire to run.I didn’t know what to believe anymore. That was the part sitting heaviest in my chest as I shut the door behind me. I’d walked into that basement hours ago thinking I had Stella in custody, thinking I was back in control of something after five years of feeling like I’d lost my grip on all of it. Now I understood that th

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    šŸ–¤ Alexandra šŸ–¤ā€œYou got married?ā€Jayden’s voice came through my phone so loud I had to pull it slightly away from my ear as I stood beside my car, one hand resting on the door handle, my mind already preparing for the war waiting inside the house, and somehow my twin screaming at me was not part

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 037

    šŸ–¤ Jacob šŸ–¤I didn’t say anything immediately after Stella spoke.I just looked at her. Because sometimes the problem is not what someone says, it’s how easily they say it, and right now my little sister was standing in front of me smiling like she just told me I won a lottery, not like she just ca

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 035

    šŸ–¤ Jacob šŸ–¤I was still looking at her when I said it.ā€œA kiss.ā€Simple. Direct. Something normal people would ask for on a wedding day, but nothing about us had ever been normal, so even that felt like a negotiation instead of a moment.She didn’t answer immediately, and that alone told me she was

  • Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 034

    šŸ–¤ Alexandra šŸ–¤The drive back felt different. Because now there was a label on whatever this was between us, and even though nothing about Jacob Grey had suddenly become normal, there was something about sitting beside him as his wife that shifted the air in a way I couldn’t ignore.I was on my ph

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