“But there’s going to be a lot of bullshit—” I nodded when Kyle snorted. “And because of that, we’re not going to follow any of your rules since we’re the German government and so on. All the bullshit and anything they can throw at us. I want you to—”
“You’re never fully going to play by the rules, so don’t even try to tell me otherwise, Jasmine,” he drawled.
“Naw, I don’t lie to people I respect,” I admitted with a shrug, flinching when Dylan went tense. Yeah, well, I hadn’t lied to him.
And fuck him.
“But we take our word seriously and don’t boast bullshit,” Kyle added and he nodded to my left.
I swallowed a sigh when Gavin and several of the vampire councilmen walked in… Including Aidan. “Why?”
“Best to know what they risk given we have four now that have been fucking with our vendors,” he told me.
“Confirmed? With proof?” I sighed when he nodded. “Fine, we’ll turn that over to ISLE too.” I felt Ally and the others join us when their power danced all over me. “I warned you I was doing this. You cannot yell at me this time.”
“You do so fucking much and talk so damn fast that I cannot even keep up with it all, and—what now, Jasmine?” Arthur demanded.
“Just watch the show,” I purred, pointing to the first set of monitors in the far right corner.
Someone from ISLE moved in closer. “They are not fucking around. That’s enough explosives to level—a lot.” He turned towards me with wide eyes. “Where is this?”
“A swank mansion corporate owns that the cheetah council thinks is my private residence,” I told him honestly, nodding when he blinked at me. I blocked when Elijah came for me, moving so there was distance and space between us because Ally was on me next.
Then I handled Arthur, careful not hurt any of them as they tried to basically smack me. Joshua, Rita, and Natalia next.
And to sayeveryonethere was stunned—especially the ancient demons they’d called in to help and were with them at the moment—was an understatement.
“I told you she’s been training more,” Elijah groaned from the ground. “She was pulling her punches.”
“Naw, she gave me that last one because I cuffed her upside the head that last meeting,” Joshua moaned.
“Oh, I forgot about that,” I admitted. “And Iwarned youthat I was setting traps.”
“Not likethis,” several of them bitched.
Well, mostly groaned in pain.
Their tantrum had made enough time pass that things had progressed nicely. I moved back to the monitors just in time to hear two of the cheetah councilmen give the order from our wire taps to blow it all and the people inside… Who they thought included me.
Right as the cheetah team was going to set it, our people took off their cloaking and the main one had a gun to the head of the leader with the explosives. “We’re jamming your radios now and even you can’t survive this close of a shot. You get that, right?”
“Yes,” the cheetah hissed, his cat wanting to come out and protect him.
“ISLE is going to see all of this so you can all go down for attempted murder of a councilwoman—which we know your council will throw you under the bus for—”
“Or just kill you as witnesses,” one of our other guys said.
“Or that,” the first agreed. “Orwe’ll get you out of this alive as long as you help us get the real monsters. Once ISLE clears you, you and your families can relocate to Germany with legit jobs. We know you’re under orders.”
“Yeah, not this one,” someone drawled. “He wants Jasmine dead and—you’re fucking disgusting. This one’s out.”
There was a grunt and I was pretty sure our guy knocked a problem unconscious. Yeah, I would have done the same.
“Take the deal,” one of the other cheetahs hissed at the leader. “I got kids, man. We wanted out anyways. Fuck this shit.”
The leader sighed and undid the device, handing over the detonator. “What do you want us to do?”
Our guys took over, using their glamours of voices even to be on their radios saying the explosives interfered with the coms and video but it was done. It was blown and they were pretty sure they had proof of my body… But they weren’t sure since it was different than what I normally looked like. Did they want to come see or like get a sample?
