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time for breakfast, baby. I didn t do this for Clove. I did it for you so you could be here for your
brother and I was here to support you. Yes, I wanted to help my friend, but he would have understood
if I told him something came up. Be patient with me.
He searched my eyes for a moment and then nodded. Fine, but I wish you would have told me
more before I agreed to do some extras for Kinkade.
I never actually heard you agree. I just heard him boss you around like his lackey, I said
angrily. Kermy s eyes went wide and I sighed. I m not mad at you. I don t like the way he treats you.
You re not his slave. You re his little brother and that s a bond to be respected. Not abused.
It s complicated, he mumbled. He raised me and saved me when we left our old pack. He
still sees me as a little boy.
Elan understands having a complicated relationship with his brother, Mareo said gently as he
held out his hand. I m excited to get to know the man my brother is so smitten with. Kermy, right?
Wow, gorgeous genes just run in your family, Kermy giggled. We all laughed at that and then
Jordy joined us, joking that the troops were all here now.
There ended up only being ten baskets to deliver, which took us no time at all. Then I opened a
portal to Paris and at least I got to see my mate s home and where he had been living. When it was
time for me to leave, I pulled my brother off to the side and gave him a hug that I hoped put all my
feelings into it.
There is no one I would rather trust with my mate s safety than you, Mareo, I said firmly. I
hope you believe that no matter what has transpired between us.
I will protect him with my life if it comes down to it. You know that, Elan. What else can I do
to help? I don t know everything that happened but I heard bits of it last night.
You know this world better than most. I would ask help in finding those of our kind out in the
world. They need to be warned and brought in to safety. Would you help lead those on that mission?
Of course. I will discuss it with Foma and Virgil the moment we are done here, he assured
me.
Thank you, brother. I opened a portal to Isaac s, and as I stepped through it, I felt much better
about everything that needed to be done. I had good people at my back and all the help I could ask for.
That didn t mean I wouldn t rather have been helping my mate pack his belongings to move into
our temporary home. I d have to make sure he had lots of input on our suite in the new palace so he
felt included as opposed to now where he had no clue what was going on.
Or making love. Actually, I changed my answer to that. I d much rather have been making love
to my mate.
Isaac gave me the fifty-cent tour as he called it, showing me the ins and outs of the new setup
in his old family barn and where they planned on extending it for the extra manufacturing of the
ultraviolet bullets. We were going through them too fast and now that every other coven and Council
was scrambling to get some we were also sharing them too often.
Plus, with the news that the demons could turn humans into evil beings like them, there really
was no telling how many were out there.
The margays did an impressive job. It was really simple for the complexity of the product. I met
Adley Milton, the chemical engineer on the project who was in charge of the formulas. It seemed that
working with the ultraviolet compound wasn t as simple as mixing ingredients for cake batter and the
science went well over my head.
But we had smart people and scientists too. One of our fae could figure this out with Adley s
help. The rest was making sure that there were the components for the casings, watching the gauges on
the machine, and checking the finished product. It took a team of four to safely run each machine
though six would be soundest, they said. We could do that easily.
The output was impressive, but like any new technology, there were a few hiccups. They found
that it was best to run it four hours at a time with two-hour breaks in between as opposed to eight
hours or more with overnight stopping like normal production lines. Again, we could work with that.
Training for several hours, work a four-hour shift on the machine, still fit in a life or take a guard shift
here and there.
It was completely doable. Now I just had to speak with King Rylan about how fast we could get
one and what we had to do to get the guns that fired them. Most of our people had been training with
guns, but we weren t that proficient. That would have to change and fast. I wanted a sword more, but
for distance, we needed the guns.
Hell, I wanted a damn pulse blaster of ultraviolet lights and I had told them that.
Why hadn t I thought of that? Adley gasped, staring at me with wide eyes. I must speak to
Rylan about that. We could do that. Load it on the roofs of the palace and houses for protection.
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