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the demons could pick off.
Agreed. I will see it done. He flipped through a few things and handed me a list. You ll need
this.
The attaché list? I asked, smiling when he nodded. Good. Get them here as well.
To answer your earlier question, Bas said quietly when Baylor walked away. I don t know.
It would depend I guess. I had more questions then but he held up his hand. We can try it. If it
doesn t work, I won t go anywhere. It s not like I ll end up in limbo and hurt. If I can t get to where I
want, I go nowhere. It s safe, I promise.
Good deal. Then let me handle some things and tomorrow maybe we ll start tracking some
people down if we can. The rest is logistics and warrior stuff, I assured him. Go check on your
grandmother, Bas.
Okay, thank you. I could see the relief in his eyes. I gave him a pat on the shoulder before he
jogged off.
You wanted him gone, Makari mumbled quietly, not making it a question.
Yes, but I knew he wanted to see Magdalena as well, I admitted. He s her grandson and half
fae but he s still half vampire, head of the Council here, and grew up as one. I don t want to put him
in the middle of this.
Are we making a move against the vampires? he asked, his eyes going wide.
I shook my head before letting him see the firmness in my eyes. No, but we re done playing
nice. We re not fucking paupers here looking for handouts. We came into this world, jumped through
all the hoops, the Queen nearly killing herself trying to make them all happy, and assimilating to the
way they do things. It ends. We are fae and they called the wrong powerful paranormals bugs.
Oh, I m so glad to hear that, he chuckled, rubbing his hands together in glee. What first?
The Queen had you on her list to be named one of her advisors. I m naming you head of the
warriors, Makari. That will be your role as her advisor. I m sure she d approve of that decision.
It would be my honor, he said solemnly as he gave a half bow. What would you ask of me
first?
We need to get our training in gear. No more of this filling in with the wolves, vampires, and
margays.
You want to pull our help?
No, not at all. But we need to train our warriors. They can have assignments and details at
those posts but back in training mode and their details need to know that they can be called away if
the fae require their people, I said firmly. My hope is we ve made allies and they would be in
whatever fight we were in anyways. But if not, they need to understand where the loyalty lies.
Agreed. What else?
No more going through these Councils and their bureaucratic bullshit. I want you to get with
Errol in the morning, don t tell him everything, we don t want the vampires or anyone knowing what s
going on with the Queen, simply that you re taking command of our warriors. Tell him that you want
all the contacts of other warrior coordinators and from now on you ll be handling weapons requests,
transport, and so on.
I can do that. What else?
I have more but not for you, I chuckled. That should keep you busy.
What else do you have planned though? I m dying to know.
I gave him my best evil smile. We re building a fucking palace. It s not like our magic can t
protect it and make it look like a normal estate house from the outside. We will make a massive
armory there and go Dubois hunting. We are the fae. Our goddamn Queen will have a palace.
* * * *
My mate had noticed that something was up the next morning, seeing the flurry of people racing
around, and it was probably obvious that I hadn t slept much. I assured him that we d discuss it
later& After breakfast at Clove s. Because on top of everything else, my friend and ex-lover was
having a meltdown about Kinkade and his other mate he d met, needing my help and Kermy s.
Like I could say no if I wanted to, which I didn t, but I kind of should have because of everything
else. But since we didn t want all the vampires knowing yet, I couldn t exactly tell everyone or the
wolves why I couldn t come. And the last thing I wanted to do was not let Kermy be there for his
brother.
So we had breakfast. It was interesting to say the least. I tried to keep up with it all but my mind
was racing with the enormous pile of things I had to do, the issues with the Queen, and my own
mating. Plus, I was just damn tired.
If it s okay with Elan, I d like to help Jordy deliver the baskets, Kermy said quietly, getting
my undivided attention. Shit. I was already planning on asking Mareo to help the wolves go collect
their belongings so my mate could stay with me. Kinkade stood and took his dishes to the sink before
kissing Kermy s cheek.
Kermy gave his brother a wink and I bit my tongue. My mate was a good person and didn t know
what was going on. Of course he would want to help his brother.
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