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"Del, are Leo and Grégoire up to speed on Satan’s Three? That they may be in town?"
"Yes," she said si to the Va territory," she said forainst a lawbreaker "You have carte blanche in any dealings with them"
"Good As part of Protocol Aardvark, I want Katie here on-site until Leo is fully recuperated Once everyone is on-site, all travel is to be curtailed, and any travel that the vamps insist upon is to be by armored vehicle with standard three-vehicle precautions, a definite itinerary, and no deviation And if you can distract them from travel, all the better" We all knew that distract meant blood or sex It didn’t have to be said "Bethany is with Grégoire I want blood-est blood we have in the city--for Leo and Grégoire until they’re fully healed and a hundred and ten percent And whatever they need to bethe clan blood-masters to help, then that’s want I want to happen I want this city’s va up the protection of Protocol Aardvark I also need a private audience with Grégoire ASAP You have an hour before dawn to see that my orders--the orders of the Enforcer," I corrected, "are carried out Take whoever you need to get the people in place Then get back in here"
"Yes,to three others at the table
As they left the rooht gets to fight me him- or herself Personally" I looked around the rooot in to va--Mithran HQ and bit Leo It messed with our minds and our memories We have a parley with European Mithrans to plan for The electrical syste properly The elevator’s screwy And we have soue EuroVarinus" That made them sit up and take notice I could have added, And there’s so scary on the bottom basement level But I didn’t say that, not until I asked some questions of the powers that be There was a ti in the baseoire’s brother and we don’t have oire and others in HQ and will update those who need to know as I obtain info
"For the record, I screwed up when I hurt Grégoire Not because it rong to do my best, not because I should have let hi and this is not the tiive a rat’s fuzzy behind what you bet on in downti is expected a and everyone back into top shape, when the Europeans arrive on American soil, I’ll rescind my orders Until then, I want you all to turn that excite brownouts and why the elevator is wonky And if you have enough energy left after that, I want you feeding the Mithrans Got it?"
Heads nodded To ave oire will see you at any point before dawn this "
I nodded back, a tiny inclination of my head that would have done Eli proud "Wrassler, update me on the European parley What’s new?"
"Our a under the direction of Grégoire and Adelaide Mooney" He paused, as if just realizing what it oire out of couilt, which I had done a good job of hiding, shot deeply into oeth before a fall and all that Crap
Wrassler said, "The agreements to this point are: Three European Mithrans will arrive, on a date yet to be determined, with twelve huned Onorios, for a total of seventeen guests All will be housed here, in the council house By then, Leo will be back in his clan home, which will be ready for a certificate of occupancy in about ten weeks" He looked at ain
He continued "Grégoire asked me to tell Jane that he ca to the witches and Mithrans in the Middle East, Europe, and the Americas, and the history of animosity between theoire "He and Leo have agreed that Jane needs previously proscribed inforard to issues with the witches’ lanced down the table and pointed from one of Derek’s men, to the corner where a oire wanted to give you the documents himself" Wrassler’s lips twitched as he restrained a smile "However, since he’s indisposed, he asked me to present them"
One of Derek’s men from Team Tequila, ent by the moniker Jolly Green Giant, stood and carried the metal box to me With a heavy thud, he set it on the table in front of me, and I opened the lid It was full of docu I lifted one out only to see it ritten in soe I couldn’t read "Thanks This means a lot" I pulled on the manners pounded into me by the housemothers in the children’s home and said to Wrassler, "I’ll, uh, convey enerosity And I’ll take good care of the documents"
I sat down and Eli placed the box in an eested that he sat only after I did That when I stood, he stood That he was y of it, it worked There was soht, and it had to do hat I was Who I was It gave th and authority I hadn’t known or used before It terrifiedinto the day later I dropped my shoulders, lifted my head, and sat easy in my chair as if I had it all under control Liar me "I want any and all info about the EuroVarinus, Batildis, and a human known as the Devil Anyone?"
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