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“Councilwoman, we’re done,” Kyle announced, moving closer and waving one of the RATs at me. “We have all of the information.”
I glanced over at Elijah who was smirking and pointing to Phil. I looked up at the lion and he snorted.
“We weren’t coming around your people with electronics when we weren’t invited. I’ve learned from underestimating demons.”
“Smart man,” I praised. I took the RAT from Kyle and smiled. “Good job.” Glancing around, I smiled at the people. “We knew you weren’t really going to come talk to us about your people having demons as pets.” I waved the tablet around. “Now we don’t need you to. Sloanis here. She’s just glamoured because we have this thing known as glamour that we use easily.”
“Well, I feel better that we won’t be the only council you hacked,” Gavin drawled, most people shocked he would admit it. “Oh please, it’s the same trick they did to us. Now that the others will experience the same, they’ll figure out it was done to us.”
“We did save you from the human governments that were spying on you,” Rita said. “I would think that alone was worth making your covens actually behave and keep peace with us by releasing our people and taking their very fair punishments.”
“Or you could choose the path of the coven leader I met with this week who wouldn’t release them and lied to my face,” I mocked.
“What did you do to him?” Watson asked, amusement in her eyes, but I could feel the fear in her desires.
“He’s dead. Very dead,” I answered honestly. “There was more to it than a few demons who were well treated but pets.”
Rita snorted. “Much more. Most of the coven leadership is dead, and we’re tearing that coven apart. We weren’t the only ones they hurt. It was rotted to the core.” She looked at the head of the tiger council. “We actually save four of your underage tigers. He abducted them. Other species as well like he had a fucking zoo.”
“And you didn’t inform us?” he bit out.
“Ipersonallycalled your office when they informed us,” Phil snapped. “They said your office kept hanging up on them like they were robocallers, so they let us know, and your aide told me that he’d let you know when you had a free day.”
“Ooooh, I got fifty on Phil,” I chuckled.
“I’ve never seen either of them fight,” Rita muttered.
I snorted. “Neither have I, but Phil works out and believes in leading by example. He made it clear that ISLE was stepping up their game and has been from what I heard. Kitten seems the lazy type to let his guards handle things.”
“And he’s back to wanting you dead,” Joshua chuckled. He flinched but then burst out laughing. “Phil’s upset you’d only bet fifty dollars on him.”
I smirked at the other demons who knew us well and laughed. “Fifty grand. We bet in thousands. Your pride feel better now?”
“Immensely,” he admitted, giving a half shrug before looking around. “The demons turned over all the shifters that coven had captive. We all alerted your councils.Theyare not the problem here. I suggest you start focusing on your own houses as ISLE did and cut out the rot as well.”
“Let’s finish the fights, or we’re just going to be here all day yelling at them, and half won’t listen,” Natalia said, looking upset.
I waved the RAT at her. “They will. Or Sloan will make them later today.”
“Nice to know ISLE is still corrupt and will let demons hack us,” the tiger snapped. “I’m fairly sure that’s illegal.”
“Oh, kitten, you need to read what you sign,” I mocked. “Read it when you get back to the office and let me know if I just did something against it.”
“Youallagreed to any security procedures we found necessary to keep peace among the groups and for the safety of everyone involved,” Elijah said with a grin. “We foundhackingyour electronics and getting all the information we need to keep the peace among all of the groups necessary.”
There weren’t any more fights after that. They fully understood they’d walked into a trap and were the fools. Instead of staying and letting it play out or accepting we won that round and moving forward—like the vampires had—most stormed out, barking at their people to follow like they were dogs.
Which was why I kept recruiting, loudly announcing that they could always fill out applications online and call into corporate.
I caught Watson slipping Joshua something on the way out but pretended I didn’t. I was going to hang around, but it was clear ISLE was going to wait for the chance to talk to us once all the others were gone.
And Dylan was in that party.
Yeah, I got gone. Kyle had already made sure our people with the RATs were gone before announcing we were done and they were waiting at home base.
Joshua came through and handed me a slip of paper. “I don’t think it’s a trap. Her desire was we help.”
I looked down at the note and saw it was an address. I nodded. “Let’s go check it out.”
