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“Nora was right,” Kristof said, shaking his head. Then he snorted. “Winston said they had thousands from the Pinault coven come ask for food, willing to kill double for that food.”
“Oh boy,” I whispered. I shared a worried glance with Kristof. “Did I just start a vampire revolution or something?”
“You already did with shifters and clans in covens, so why stop there, my love?”
Oh boy.
“Here’s what I would really want for you to fully handle this for me, and I’ll give Nora some ridiculous gift for it even,” I told Jamelle after considering everything they told me. I stood and went over to the maps of North America. “We have a hodgepodge that Nora even said we’re holding together with sheer stubbornness and determination.”
“It’s impressive,” he muttered, studying all of the lists and markings.
“It’s too chaotic for Inez,” Kristof said. “She’s had too much chaos and needs things to start getting under wraps. At least some things. Fully. Like the castle. It’s done. We’re safe here. This one piece is fully complete.”
“You are so amazing,” I praised him, touched he understood where my head was. I smiled and stood on my toes, giving him a kiss. “My husband is right. We have some things mapped out at Seattle and culled around there. Around the outposts. Here, there, and a bit of nowhere we are like Minnesota.”
“You want a complete map of what was the United States and Canada?” Jamelle asked, his voice a bit stunned.
“Yes. I know it will change with herds moving and migration and—it’s just so chaotic. We have someone working on this, but if you bring over two hundred vampires, we could get a real damn map and handle on what’s next. Where we are done, where we need to handle, and how to do better. That’s what I want. Not just bam, bam, bam information thrown at me.”
“And this is the one area you can do it, figure out fully, yes, smart,” he muttered, staring at what was there. “I don’t think there is still enough time to handle this much land in the weeks Nora planned to have me here.”
“That’s fine, but we need like a super adult we trust implicitly to figure out the start,” I told him. “Start the path. Start in Boston and set up the system. We’re just all over and…” I put my fingers at my temples and flicked them out while making exploding noises.
They seemed to accept that.
He also agreed.
Oh, and Nora was drawing up the official treaty, carefully considering the language and would be the first to sign it as her dedication to Aether. Rock on.
Seriously, she was so cool.
We met up with the other nobles and I got a chance to hear it from each of them that their princesses were in. They would send the twenty vampires to guard our warehouses and—whatever we wanted. What I was offering was ridiculously generous and they would… Mostly be the same. They all offered extras in return but like one offered two people to help hunt.
Fine, it was more, but others offered ten or twenty. Or more to their raiding parties so more got done for everyone, including us.
Kristof and Sebastian filled them in on the deal just made and informed them of what was going on at the trading post so our alliance was in the loop. Everyone agreed that getting more food to the trading post was most important before problems started there.
I fully agreed and so had Kristof because the moment Winston had told him, he’d had a cargo plane loaded and sent off to Hanna. It should land soon, but we had to keep things going. Fast.
Which meant a lot of crazy, but Winston said Hanna was also going to cover the trading post with the provisions they had. We just had to pay them back.
Done and with interest.
The next few days were full of getting cargo planes out with meat and the ship out of Boston loaded for Nora.
The convention center and the new coven.
Informing people who were officially accepted into the coven from Safie’s and Bahati’s covens.
Dealing with the people who were upset they weren’t on the list.
And showing those people the door who were on the list to leave after we discussed it with the nobles from those covens.
It was also getting more to the humans and bringing in another small camp to safety. It was actually the one I’d revealed that I was a vampire to first and we tricked the leadership.
The one I’d met Cerdic at even if I hadn’t met him really yet. He’d seen me at.
I held his hand when we went back there and I felt like… I missed him. He was still struggling and trying to deal with what was going on, but we just never had a minute to ourselves.
