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Still, I saw he understood he was acting as if Tyson was family or his best friend. Then again, we’d all watched this same scene play out with Inez and Darius and hadn’t been able to help then either.
“For the record, Inez hoped to come help you pull your head out of your ass so you had a chance to fix things before Tyson couldn’t stand the pain anymore,” Moon said sadly. “She said she wished Trisha or someone had done that to Darius before she closed her heart to him for abandoning her no matter how he was drowning.”
I sighed. “It’s a shame. I was rooting for you. So was Inez when she saw how much Tyson loved you.” I hadn’t meant it to put salt in Chris’s wounds, but he flinched like I did. “I assume you want the human role here of being Shawn Boyle’s right hand since you’ll live here now?”
“Ouch, Kristof,” Moon chuckled. He winced when I glanced at him. “Oh, you weren’t poking him. Too soon, man.”
It was my turn to wince. “There’s too much to always juggle. Fine, I’ll ask later.” I moved closer to him and waved for Inez when he hugged her closer. “Give me my drunk wife.”
“She’s got the cutest snores when she’s drunk,” he muttered under his breath as he reluctantly did as I wanted.
“Yes, she does,” I agreed, kissing her hair. I glanced at Sisay. “Go check in on Tyson and make sure he isn’t in pain tomorrow. We’re sending a few fighter pilots to help Nora with the situation over there. He might want to be the one to go now and clear his head for a bit.”
“Jesus, you really know how to kick a guy while he’s down,” one of the humans grumbled.
I glanced over at him and saw him focused on Chris, wincing again when the human looked as if I’d punched him in the nuts.
“Kristof doesn’t do it intentionally which is why it hurts so much worse,” Sisay muttered. “He’s trying to bear the brunt of as much as he can so Inez doesn’t.”
Yes, that sounded about right. Still, I wasn’t going to apologize for what I said. I was trying to be considerate of Tyson who I liked and was bonded to my wife. I wasn’t trying to hurt Chris, but… Tyson was the priority.
That seemed like it should be obvious.
I left with Inez before I inadvertently stepped in anything else. I settled into bed with her, and while I was glad to be the one to hold her at night, it also irked me because there was so much I wanted to get done for her. She needed me to handle so much and be there for her physically.
“I had an idea even if it’s annoying,” Petre told me about ten minutes into my laying with Inez. He waited for me to nod and then went over by the window and opened it. “Go ahead, Joi.”
Had he told people to give updates outside of Inez’s tower where he could hear them and relay the information to me while I held my wife?
Yes, yes, the smart very old vampire did.
Amazing. Probably annoying, but amazing, and even more so that people understood we needed to help Inez and give allowances for her being so young instead of being so fucking demanding of her.
Joi had spoken to the two former Sisters of the Earth and they were in for nightly corrupted hunts. Joi wanted to start right away and give them the education they needed about Inez and the war of Aether and Erebus before they could talk themselves back into retirement.
So she needed Inez’s blood.
I managed to wake Inez up enough to get her to agree. We got two small jars—one for Joi and one for Jamelle to handle with Nora—before Inez was back out. Petre made a joke not to let fire near the blood with all the alcohol probably in it.
That amused all of us.
Others followed suit though, and I was able to receive updates from the different nobles of the coven. For instance, the noble in charge of food reported that every outpost had enough food for two—almost three—weeks in the freezer in case anything happened and we had to go into a lockdown.
By the end of the week, they would all have the month’s worth of food made that my wife wanted.
Good, that was something huge off her mind.
And a sneaky plan if Inez could get another nuclear-powered merchant ship. That might be a tall order to ask for, but I liked the idea of loading that up with freezer trailers full of food and letting it go out to sea with a trusted crew. It could be a very smart backup and something even parked off Nora’s shores.
One there and one off Seattle.
I swallowed a sigh. Inez would lose her mind at the idea of pulling a nuclear-powered ship out of her ass. Not really, but that was how she always referred to it.
Though, I did understand her reservations about trying to find nuclear elements and fuel. Some things shouldn’t be broken down into energy beads.
Maybe refurbishing some aircraft carriers? I said as much and was glad when Petre nodded and seemed to agree. Good, I gave the order to find a few that could be put back online for this secret assignment, for Seattle and Nora, and to tap Trisha for it.
Next were power and utilities. Seattle was bringing in more power than it was using. So were the outposts in Canada, and that meant no one was worried about the winter. They did want more fixed batteries that they could charge up just in case Keres hit them, and then they could just change everything over.
