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Shock rocked me when I saw there were almost two dozen shifters from different councils waiting for us.
“We want to help and hand over the demons,” she said in way of greeting, gesturing to those with her. “But we’re not in charge. We’re not the majority, and as shitty as it is, if we keep pushing—”
“You’ll be out,” Joshua surmised, nodding as the others did.
“And you’re right that all of us or our families have had a hand in keeping demons vulnerable,” a panther shifter said. “Watson told us about your conversation and you’re right. We owe penance for that and we want to help.”
“Forgive us for not jumping with joy and simply believing that,” Rita muttered as she joined us with Elijah and Natalia.
He bobbed his head but then sighed, rubbing his hands over his head. “Look, we don’t allow it. It’s in our laws too. And Ipersonallyhad talked to the former head of ISLE that I found the lack of demons working there to be disconcerting when we heard again and again that they protected you, helped demons when they needed it.”
“I heard the same,” Watson said when we all snorted. “We all did, and we’re sorry we didn’t push, but you understand how much comes with our positions. Not being corrupt is fucking harder and keeps us busy while trying to do our actual jobs.”
“What are you offering?” Elijah cut in, getting to the chase faster than he normally did.
He was still tired. I could feel it coming off of him. Damn.
“Help,” Watson said again. “I don’t know what we could really help with.” She met my gaze. “I planned on giving you the names of four wolves who are licensed therapists and help packs when they go through something traumatic. I thought that could help your rescued demons.”
“Immensely,” I agreed before swallowing loudly. “Unfortunately, there are a handful we don’t think we can save because they were brainwashed. Some of the covens were taking them young before they even turned into demons and…” I nodded when several people swore.
I was glad they all truly felt that was horrible. There were a lot of people who would willingly be kept as a pet or trophy wife/husband. That was very,verydifferent than brainwashing children to be weapons basically.
“You took down human traffickers,” another councilwoman said. “If you’re the German government—my daughter told me about it. She works in that area with a government agency and was thrilled a huge out-of-country source of the problem was off the board.”
“We’re dismantling the whole network as much as we can,” Rita said. “If your daughter or their agency has any information that could help us, we want that.”
We shared a glance and agreed they were on the up and up, their desires pure and full of the drive to do good when they kept being blocked from that.
“While we’re getting the locations, we’re going to check of all your packs, prides, and such—can you do anything with dirt we find?” I asked.
“It depends,” Watson sighed.
“And it depends on how bad the dirt is,” someone else grumbled. “The heads are pretty much locked in, and none of us have the power to oust them. We might be able to get one of someone dirty out if you get us something good.”
“We can’t have ISLE take them all out when we find dirt,” I muttered, sharing a look with the others.
“That’s going to have to be a long-term goal, Jasmine,” Elijah said gently. “If we start taking out council members after we did the vampires—we’ll have war. We’llwin, but some of ours will die in the process.”
“Yeah, okay.” I blew out a slow breath before looking at Watson. “We seized the compound for that raid, and we’re going to use it as a safe haven for the demons we’re saving. We could use a lot of help, and honestly all we need is for you to vouch for people. We’ll pay them. Just get us manpower to pack up and have ears or cook and—everything.”
“I know several small and honorable packs that are hurting for money and wouldloveside jobs,” she told me easily. “They don’t want to be in the spotlight to work for your clubs, but if you have other jobs available, yes, I willpersonallyvouch for them as clean.”
They all said the same and meant it.
Well, that was a turn of events that I was pleasantly surprised about.
That didn’t happen very often, and we gladly took it.
16
I worked constantly in my role as Sloan over the next week. I went into work as Rue and handled other things as Jasmine, but the majority of everything was diving into what we’d been let into.
A few of the council members were actually not idiots and tried to ditch their phones as if that would stop what I’d planned… But it didn’t help much. I didn’t get everything from their phones like pictures and files, but my worm had already gotten in all their apps.
That gave me all their logins. Access to everything else including—but not limited to—their email, banks, and social media.
So I didn’t care that we could skip the dick pics and other nonsense people always had on their phones. Some of it might have been helpful, but really not needed.
