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“If you ever tauntanyoneabout crimes wolves commit, especially against a woman, you will not only lose your job, but your standing in your pack and more,” Watson seethed. “I will fight you next and permanently wound your wolf so he limps so you never act like such a monster again and remember wolves have more honor than you are behaving with.”
I let out a whistle. “You done did pissed her off. Not much going on in that head to piss off two of the most powerful women in our world, huh?”
Natalia counted it down and I wanted it over with the wolves, so I wasn’t as careful.
And yeah, I made that guy hurt. A lot. He had over a dozen broken bones.
I gave a nod to Watson in thanks for the backup. She did the right thing publicly which always carried a lot of weight with me.
The wolves had alotof guards show. Probably most of them, and when I realized that was intentional since the council knew that I’d been taken by wolves, I was fucking livid.
Always dangerous.
“I have a bone to pick with you,” Rita said when there was a break so dozens of wolves could be dragged out… And apparently, no one had thought to bring people to do that.
Of course, the council members weren’t going to do it.
I raised an eyebrow at that. “I thought Ally was spanking me about the Spain thing?”
She snorted. “We’re all smacking you for taking that risk, Jasmine. No, I mean you adopted a puppy and didn’t even send me a picture? I thought you loved me.”
She was distracting me, but it worked, my anger at the wolves chilling.
“Kyle snuck a picture of Elijah holding him,” I purred, nodding when the other ancients couldn’t hide their shock. “It was his punishment for doubting me and saying something stupid. And I technically didn’t adopt the puppy but yes, I’m a new mom. I’ll send pictures to the group chat. He’s fucking delicious with big floppy ears and just—love at first sight.”
I might have said more, but I caught sight of David and did a double take. I couldn’t hide my shock but tried to curb it, shooting the other demons a worried look.
Except they clearly knew.
I couldn’t even bitch when I’d sprung this all on them. The way Joshua smirked at me, I knew he was making a point.
We were all too busy and had too much going on to have things sprung on us. I sighed and nodded as I kept his gaze. Fine, he was right. I needed to stop flying solo so much.
As long as they stopped acting like my parents and remembered we were all teammates.
Which, clearly, Rita agreed with when she cuffed him upside the head at my shock.
Nice.
15
“I find it ironic that you’re using this event to recruit when you’re threatening to fire all shifters,” the head of the tiger council said loudly, cutting into our fun. “We were also promised that you would discuss these illegal addendums and—”
“Do not lie to demons, child,” Joshua sighed. “You’re full of desire that we all assume someone slipped up and misspoke and that can lock us in to have the discussion. Except we don’t do that,andwe all feel your desire to pull a fast one on us.” He smirked at the tiger. “Did I explain that plainly enough for you, or do I need to be blunt and say you’re full of shit?”
I tried to cover a chuckle by clearing my throat but failed. Damn, Joshua had had enough.
“No one promised you anything,” Rita added. “And coming from someone who didn’t even read the details and rules of this event, I wouldn’t take your word on much.Youwere the one ignoring us for a meeting whenwehad something to discuss. Now you think you can just push that aside and demand what you want?”
“How childish,” I chuckled darkly. “Absolutely rude and trashy of you, kitten.” I smirked at him. “We’re not getting rid of thevery legaladdendum. We’re not changing our minds for the twelve who wouldn’t sign it.” I snorted when shock flashed in his eyes. “Yeah, we had…” I glanced at Elijah. “How many do we employ? How many shifters signed it?”
He snorted. “Thousands. All but twelve. Everyone else wanted the protection fromtheir councilsso they wouldn’t be pulled in and used to try and get to us like the bears did with a single dad who lost his mate. We didn’t allow him to become a pawn, and now he’s a German citizen and has our protection.”
It was hard not to laugh when every bear councilman there had Elijah’s death in their desires for outing their misdeeds.
He smirked at the group, easily able to find them because of their desires. “Thank you for pushing such a strong,loyalfamily to want to become ours instead of yours.” He glanced around the whole room. “Which is what the rest of you are doing instead of what you think you are. Over athousandof our shifter employees have come to see our legal department to ask questions.”
Rita sighed when too many people were confused. “Questions on how to not get caught up in your webs. They’ve been asking how to legally move to Germany and what it entails to remove themselves from your hierarchy and come intoourswhen they are not demons.” She focused on the bears specifically. “Can you be a council if you have no people left under you because your leadership was so bad?”
