“Are you saying I’m an Alpha demon like Bain was born an Alpha wolf, not just he was the oldest of his Alpha parent?” I hedged, trying to process how that sounded.
“We aren’t saying we know the answer or what to call this because you’re the only one,” Nathanial said gently. “I don’t even know if it’s how Daniel would characterize it. I’m telling you what I’m sensing and trying to articulate it.”
I glanced to where Daniel had been but found him far into the kitchen on his phone. So clearly this had also been a distraction while he’d called in for help.
I couldn’t even be mad at him. I would have done the same.
I just didn’t like when people didn’t talk to me like I was unreasonable or always such a pain in the ass. I didn’t want to get busted and risk all of us any more than anyone else did.
It was less than ten minutes before the portal flared active and a few of the ancients who co-owned Heavenly Entertainment with me came through. We also ran the German government and were the council members of the new demon council, but more than that, we were all loyal friends.
So it was only surprising that Ally was there because she was currently the Chancellor of Germany sometimes, and getting her at the drop of a hat was damn near impossible.
“I only have five minutes,” she warned and came right for me. Her eyes flashed shock. “You cut dampeners.”
“No. Elijah added another ten just in case—I know none of you believe me that this is a demon, but he trusts me enough to at least not ignore me. He added some.”
“Damn, girl,” she whispered. Then pity filled her eyes because they all knew how hard the dampeners were on me. “You need more. I’d say at least twenty more.”
“I’m running out of fucking skin,” I grumbled. It wasn’t remotely true, but it was exhausting to have dampeners that contained my true power. I basically had to still feed that level of power and then feed the power used to have those dampeners hide my other power.
It was a lot. And a lot of power, which was great but also a headache.
Honestly, most of life was a fucking headache and I wasn’t sure why we really ever even fucking bothered.
Yeah, I was all sunshine and rainbows like that.
6
The ancient demons couldn’t sense something off with my energy that the angels were feeling, simply there was more power. So Elijah dropped everything to hurry and put another thirty dampeners on me. He suggested we try to see if Mason could learn to do it and I couldn’t hide my hurt, immediately shutting it down.
But it was something we’d have to discuss later because I could feel his confusion.
Men truly were stupid.Trulywere stupid sometimes.
Elijah had been protecting me this way for decades. It was our burden to bear and I trusted him. Yes, I trusted Mason too, but… Not like that. Not the way anyone would afterdecades.
It was too important to just pass off. And to make me feel a chore or pain he had to endure when I already did feel that way was beyond stupid.
I was glad when the angels clearly understood and would hopefully lay into Elijah when I was gone. Good, because it was exhausting to constantly set men straight and force them to pull their heads out of their asses.
There was no better word than exhausting.
Then it was rudely feeding and racing to get into place when I’d left myself more than enough time. Always fun, but always expected when nothing ever really went to plan.
The club wasn’t close to the worst I’d worked at but also wasn’t the best. I’d have ranked it lower half though. It wasn’t kept up well and definitely needed a deep clean. How it passed any sort of health inspection was a joke.
And anyone who ate anything from the kitchen was seriously off their rocker. I would maybe play Russian Roulette risking a gunshot wound to the stomach rather than put their food there.
No, I truly wasn’t kidding.
Austin Brann was exactly what I would expect given the con he was pulling on the dancers with the deposit. The curveball our quick research didn’t uncover was that hiswifeactually managed the place and the dancers.
That was a new one even for me.
It took me exactly two seconds to understand why Nicole Brann did it though. Because she knew she couldn’t trust her sleezy husband around other women.
Unfortunately, she blamed and hated all ofusinstead of him. Instead of having enough self-respect to leave the piece of shit, she shit on all the females who worked for him.
