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“I swear to you that she is of the same opinion as you to kill as many as possible before there is a new trick from Erebus. Our coven has been killing as many as possible. Safely. This is the next step. Vitor has agreed as long as you are protected by someone of a certain age who can be a deterrent and useful.”
“I am both, Princess,” Nora’s Night, Jamelle, said with a smirk.
Kristof nodded, clearly knowing the vampire’s age.
I nodded, getting that this was also Nora saying very loudly that my protection was more important than hers given the threat. “If Vitor is willing, then absolutely. I would ask Risa would join him to help. I think that would say a lot very loudly.”
“You are as smart as I was warned,” Jamelle praised. “Well done, Princess.”
“Inez is fine, especially when you’re buttering me up,” I teased, smirking when they both flinched. “So what does Nora want for the message of sending her Night to protect me and valuing my people when they help? What is the second part?”
Sebastian actually took my hand and pulled me to sit down, still holding my hand. “She is still very angry at Jaxon for how he has hurt you, been a stupid noble like those that have hurt her. I’m telling you with all of my sincerity and admitting this when Jaxon isn’t around to hear so my son isn’t wounded as he’s trying to pick himself up from his mistakes.”
I nodded, understanding it was a balancing act for them. I felt the same because I loved Jaxon even if I was the one he hurt.
“No matter the optics, helping you and taking a burden we can handle off your shoulders is Nora’s goal,” he continued.
“Putting some attention on us and off of you even,” Jamelle added.
I listened as they explained that Nora saw what would come next now that I had taken over Kaitlin. She understood the politics and the princesses of the alliance would want the same offer I was willing to give my “enemies” of killing corrupted for meat that everyone desperately needed.
And given I needed the help of the alliance now, she didn’t want anyone pressuring me or making side deals. So as Hanna had taken on the trading post role, Nora wanted to do it for me in regards to those in the alliance. A discounted rate since part of the help of weapons was the promise to use them to kill, but also getting more bullets to people—all of it.
She wanted to take that huge burden and handle it for me. Do it better since she was closer and could personally go leave my blood somewhere near one of the covens and oversee them kill corrupted.
It was clear she was ridiculously worried Erebus would pull something soon to change the game again or make my life harder. We definitely agreed on that and we couldn’t just have the fighter jets fly to Paris like we had to LA or Denver. Not with what we currently had set up.
Though she did think we needed to do some of that as well. We had a lot of fighter pilots and they would be safe with her. If we trusted her, she would handle all of it. It would pull focus towards her, and she could handle that now after James had been working with them the past few weeks on what they needed and training.
Nothing was left of the Irish government, and the coven had handled all the radical groups in all of Ireland. Some were dead for their crimes and others were now barking at air since they were missing their rocket launchers and “dangerous toys” as Nora put it.
Nora also had a very detailed plan. She wanted me to fix some things in Boston, and it took less than three days to sail from Boston to Ireland with a huge cargo ship. She wanted freezer containers loaded up with animals—unprocessed even—and it could be docked at her coven. She would handle it all.
Allow people to work with her on getting what they wanted and move the ship closer to covens for them to take containers. Sebastian swore to me that she would handle everything and make there be less of a threat for me, her little lass.
And that was the moment I truly and totally knew what a mother’s love felt like. She was going to the mat for me because she wanted to protect me and she could, even with the hits she would take.
Like only Nora could, she was also doing it in style. The moment I gave permission, two hundred of her coven who worked under Jamelle were going to come and handle it. And getting the food to Hanna for the trading post.
That was where I hit the brakes. “We’ve been getting them food left and right. They don’t need—”
“They’re out,” Kristof cut in, nodding when I couldn’t hide my shock. “I spoke to Winston when he returned.
“We were afraid of this,” Jamelle sighed.
“I’m actually really confused,” I admitted.
“While you’re amazing at military tactics and even more politics than anyone could think of someone your age, without your memories, and given you became an adult in the apocalypse, you still are green in coven and court bullshit,” Sebastian muttered, looking too worried. “The moment you took out Kaitlin for killing her coven over food, that changed things.”
I snorted. “I would hope so. I made it clear that the princesses better rethink being so brutal because someone would hold them accountable.”
Sebastian and Jamelle shared a look and then it clicked.
“The other covens got bold, huh?” I chuckled darkly. “Charlene and Romona? Their covens told them to stuff their objections now?”
“Oh, we knew that would happen,” Sebastian drawled. “Nora realized something a bit more.” He gave me a sad smile. “Their covens are trying to push them into making a move so you have to take over.” He nodded when I couldn’t hide my shock.
“And not only those covens,” Jamelle added. “Nora suspected other covens with horrible princesses, but that are big and no one would think would take the risk like the Pinault coven or—”
