I snorted. He didn’t have to explain the troubles of feeding to a demon.
Especially not a demon who could strip the minds of someone by repeat feeding. Yeah, I fully understood.
“I don’t judge you for it and I won’t even tell the others,” I promised him. I smiled when he seemed hesitant. “We set up humans to feed all the time, Aidan. They don’t know. We do what we need to so we survive. Yeah, a demon feeding doesn’t affect them like a pint of blood as long as we behave or they’re not freaks like me, but—you’ll handle the problem. We’re good.”
“Thank you, Jasmine. Truly.”
I gave him a soft kiss because I could tell it had been a problem for him in the past. Someone in his life had clearly had a major problem with it or trashed him about it.
Well, that wasn’t me.
And I’d actually killed people from feeding. I had no room to judge anyone as long as they tried their best.
ButthenI reminded him that he’d already told me that he’d gone to feeders and let this slip. His response that he’d made a remark in passing that there were always ways and people knew how to get what they wanted was nothing. It sounded local and like to New York and his territory.
This was aglobal… Secret society kind of thing. Which—fair.
Yeah, fair enough. I’d just been ready to give him shit because he left the whole lying around in lingerie and obvious hopes of sex part off what he’d said.
Of course any smart man would have.
I checked to see if David was up and was glad it was actually only him. I told him everything and he had a few guesses as to who it could be but didn’t want to burden me with the information.
And what the higher-tier angel told me about the Nephilim was a complete shock to him. Like complete shock.
But he also was skeptical since not much was a shock anymore since angels didn’t keep their mouths shut on much.He would know better than me, but also they hadn’t had many details about my dad and that whole being born of evil thing I supposedly was so… Yeah, nothing was ever easy.
He asked for now I keep it all to myself and maybe only Elijah while he quietly discussed it with the others. That was fair.
For now.
Plus, I had other things on my plate like a whole huge meeting I’d mostly forgotten about. Fuck. Like…Fuck.
“I’m so sorry. I know you’re both waiting for me to come to bed, but I forgot something important, and I have—it’s for Friday morning German time,” I told Mason and Aidan when I got back. “And I have to go undercover right after. I’m so sorry. Please, go to bed and—”
“What can we help with?” Aidan asked gently. He moved his fingers over my lips when I went to argue. “I have a feeling I know what this is about and I’ve restructured a lot of times over my years. I was very good at—I’m also on a successful council even if you saved our bottoms. Let me help. I’ll sign another NDA.”
“I can organize and chart out information, but it will all change too, Jasmine,” Mason muttered. “You’re exhausted.”
True, but I normally was.
Still, I caved because I trusted them both and I was glad I did because they were both beyond ridiculously helpful. Like gold stars all over the place helpful.
And that was how I walked into corporate Friday morning with the finalized version of the restructuring plans with decisions made as the big boss.
For the demon council—though we had to officially name it.
For Heavenly Entertainment.
For Heavenly Properties.
And for theGerman government.
So no big.
12
I brought up the organization chart Mason had helped me put into one of the Microsoft Office products. I forgot which one.
