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Now they wanted her dead too.
Those jerks. They were getting the focus off of me. Of course, they were.
“It was a smart play,” Watson praised, shocking most of the room.
“Why don’t you go join their council and be one of them if you’re going to keep taking their side on everything?” a different wolf blasted with a growl.
I cut in to back her up this time. “So she should have to leave her pack, position, and all she’s built because you’re shit at your job? Am I hearing that right?” I snorted when he looked at me with a warning to shut up. Fuck him. “There is a bylaw in every one of your charters that part of your role is to keeppeaceto protect your people.”
“Awww, she does listen when you lecture her about important stuff,” Joshua said quietly to Elijah.
Except we all heard it, and it was hard not to laugh.
I gestured to Watson. “She was smart enough to try and get in front of things and make this work, realizing the reality for wolves, and her first priority was to keep them safe. You still think there’s some way to break up what we’ve done and shut us down.”
“And wanting as much of the spoils of what we’ve built for the council selfishly,” Natalia added, not hiding her disgust.
“There is no shutting us down,” I told them all firmly. “There’s no turning us against each other because we would rather die than stab each other in the back.” I met the tiger head’s gaze. “I would give mysoulto save any of the council, and they would do the same. We’ve all risked our lives for each other, so it’s not talk. You cannot turn us against each other. You’ve got no card to play.”
I gave them a few minutes to settle with that, ready to get back to the fight because I was tired of repeating myself. I really was.
Elijah gave me the shock of my life with what he said next. “And we’re not just an influence on the German government like the warlocks are to France. Wearethe German government. A demon is the chancellor, and we control Germany.”
“Elijah,” I hissed, shocked he of all people told them that.
“Their desires are all now to get involved with the German government and have them force us out,” Rita defended. “And with magic and anything else they can. Too many of them reside in the US because they couldn’t control the ancients of old cities. That could bring conflict between the US and Germany because they’re too stupid to understand what’s really going on.”
Pride. It always came back to people having too much fucking pride.
Joshua snorted at what hit us next. “Fine, tell everyone. Goright aheadand tell the humans that supes control the German government.”
All the shifters and vamps there flinched when the demons all smiled.
“We don’t keep demons a secret;youall want to,” I purred. “Please, tell them. Tell everyone. Let one of your people be stupid and slip it. Fuck, that would be awesome because all the other councils would hate you and beat your asses, and we’d finally get what we truly want.”
“You’d be dead if humans knew demons were real,” someone snapped. “They would turn all of their hate onto you.”
I snorted, hearing it echo. “You don’t even believe that. If you thought that true and a way to control us really, you would have done it long ago. We’re the children of angels, andseventy percentof people in the world believe in angels and heaven. Please, tell them.”
“They’ll call us Nephilim and you’ll all be screwed,” Rita added. “You’vealwaysbelieved that.” She snorted when I couldn’t hide my shock. “I thought you knew that. It’s the councils’ biggest fear. We won’t be seen as demons when we can feel sin, track it. Humans won’t understand feeding on sin when they barely believe the truth about vampires. They will call us Nephilim and love us.”
“The angels will never allow that,” someone else tried.
“Do not speak for me or my brothers,” David blasted as he stepped out from the group. He stopped covering his power and let them feel it. “There are many of us who do not like the way other supes have treated our family.”
“Still treat them instead of doing what is right,” Nathanial added as he did the same with his power.
“Wesuggestyou all start following the wise lead of Gavin and the vampire council who saw our family as the allies they could be,” David advised. “And you will release our children from captivity. If you donot, you won’t have the ‘annoyance’ of having to actually follow the law where demons are concerned. You’ll be but a memory, and you won’t end up seeing us again.”
Because they wouldn’t be in Heaven. That was what he was alluding to even if he hadn’t ever been there either.
Someone snorted. “So you didn’t do it. You had angels save your asses.”
“No, we did it all on our own,” I chuckled darkly. “They found me during a takeover last year and asked to join in the fight.” I glanced around but couldn’t lock in on who said it. “And you have your packs or covens to take care of you. You understand the hypocrisy if you look down on us if we had gone to our parents for help, right?”
I glanced at the other demons as if asking, “Is this me?”
No, it wasn’t.
