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Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 139
š¤ Jacob š¤The second Jackās āUnderstood, bossā landed in the air between us, something else landed right alongside it something I hadnāt 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 Iād 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 hadnāt even known existed until last week.And they were just out there. Right now. S
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š¤ Jacob š¤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 Stellaās 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 Lexās custody still hadnāt 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.Iād 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
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š¤ Jacob š¤She took my home from me.Iād said it to Lex on the phone before I fully understood how true it was, and now, sitting alone in an Airbnb that wasnāt mine with a folder full of my fatherās betrayal still open on the table in front of me, I understood it completely.Stella hadnāt just dismantled the Grey family business. Sheād used the Fisher-Hale familyās own power to do it Lexās family, the family Iād married into, the family Iād 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 donāt 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
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š¤ Alexandra š¤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 Papaās office with the entire sack of files heād handed me, and instead of going to my room, I went straight to my own office down the hall the one Iād 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 didnāt know what to believe anymore. That was the part sitting heaviest in my chest as I shut the door behind me. Iād 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 Iād lost my grip on all of it. Now I understood that th
Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 135
š¤ Alexandra š¤āHi, Papa,ā I greeted, walking into his home office after making sure my babies were tucked in bed, safe, sleeping, alive in a way that had felt impossible just hours earlier today.āI was told you went back to work,ā Papa said, smiling without looking up from the files spread across his desk, the lamp light catching the silver at his temples in a way that made him look older than he had the last time Iād sat in this room.āAnd I was surprised by how much I missed that lifestyle,ā I responded, taking the seat across from him, the same worn leather chair I used to sit in as a teenager waiting to be told I was too young to understand half of what was happening around me.He looked up then, something soft and a little sad moving behind his eyes. āYou sound like my Jay right now. Sometimes he wanted something so badly, and still chose the safe option most times, for the sake of the people around him.āI felt the familiar ache settle into my chest not sharp anymore, not the
Chaos Is My CrownĀ Ā Ā 134
š¤ Jacob š¤Thereās another Jacob Grey.I sat with that sentence the entire drive back from the basement, turning it over and over like a stone I couldnāt get a clean grip on. What the hell was actually going on. I didnāt even understand the shape of the plot I was supposedly living inside anymore, five years of running from a danger I thought I understood, and tonight alone had already rewritten the rules of it twice.āHmm. Lex, can I ask you something?ā I said, turning to look her directly in the eye once we were back in the car, because if I was going to start pulling at threads, I wanted to watch her face while I did it.āAsk away,ā she said.āFive years ago,ā I said slowly, āwas your family the only one responsible for the Grey familyās downfall? Or did you have help from the inside. Someone close to me.āShe didnāt flinch, didnāt look away, just considered the question with the same level focus she gave everything tonight. āI genuinely didnāt have anything to do with your family
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š¤ Alexandra š¤āWelcome back home hubby.ā The words barely left my mouth and almost immediately Jacobās head snapped upward so fast it almost looked painful.And God.The look on his face nearly made the surprise come back worth it.He looked relieved and it so intense it looked physically painful
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š¤ Jacob š¤ āYou sent your sister, my granddaughter, to a psychiatry hospital?ā Grandfatherās voice came out dangerously calm while standing in the middle of my office with both hands resting behind his back. Honestly? That tone scared grown men more than screaming ever could. āYes grandfather,ā
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š¤ Alexandra š¤The moment I stepped out of the office, my chest tightened painfully.God.I hate this feeling. I hate it so much. Anger made sense to me. Violence made sense. Control made sense. But this?This messy painful emotional nonsense sitting inside my chest like broken glass?Absolutely d
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š¤ Jacob š¤ The commissioner meeting drained the hell out of me mentally. Apparently when an underground restaurant explodes into gunfire, killer robots, dead mafia leaders, and national panic, people suddenly start treating you like the final boss in a terrorism documentary. Amazing. By the ti
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