Page 69 of Knowing Trust

“I wouldn’t have it any other way, my sweet mate,” Julian purred. “I will call you ‘Father’ if you upset her right now.”

I clearly had missed something because Lageos mumbled about him being a git. Calarel arrived and looked like she might thump me but gave me a check over and said Julian made the right call and I needed healing runes and food.

I always need food and made a snarky comment about that.

“Okay, okay, I understand,” Lageos said once Leigh was done and so was Calarel lecturing us both. He pinched the bridge of his nose before giving me a look of love. “You are so pure even with all of the darkness you have lived, Daughter. It—I worry so much for you. It will take five mates to keep you from being turned dark with all you do.”

“What did you do now, shorty?” Hudson growled.

I turned to see him standing with Lucca and Darby, Neldor already laying into someone off to the side. I just held open my arms to Hudson. “Huggies?”

He sighed, but it worked, my dragon chuckling when I let out a “wee” at the height difference. They were filled in and then glanced at Izzy.

“Hey, I got pulled in late too. I’m all for you guys spanking her.”

“No, that didn’t—”

Hudson moved his hand over my mouth. “I thought you took off the rune?”

“It hit her back, but mostly she just feels drunk, and drunk Tams is honest, lovey-dovey, and a bit whiney Tams,” Izzy answered.

“I can’t even get mad when she speaks facts,” I mumbled. “Also, horny and hungry Tams. H&H Tams.” I snorted. “Let’s dance, beastie.”

“Oh gods,” someone chuckled, probably Lucca.

“I’m going to be the only demigod with gray fucking hair,” Lageos grumbled. “Fine, I understand the purpose of this deal and even applaud it when you are pressing more and more for everyone to be more transparent and be held accountable. You, new CEO woman. I don’t like that you don’t like my daughter, but I will still help.

“It’s a necessary skill Tamsin needs, so I will show her how to do it as part of her schooling. You can also do your show into her education which her people should want to know more about. I have heard many want to know more, but other supes are always annoyed how she excels. But my daughter doesn’t want to brag. I do as her father. That’s my price.”

Leigh accepted it, thinking it was smart.

“Nel, you gotta be the adult and spank the five assholes,” I told him. “They’re bad people, like dayumn they’re into shit. And we got the receipts. I doubt we even scratched the surface with the way they were yelling at each other. We need Izzy to explain it all and—the tea was spilled. All over my fucking castle.”

“She’s too adorable like this,” Hudson mumbled. “Seriously.”

“I swear too much to be adorable,” I argued, flushing when several snorts echoed in the room. “Fine, feed me and call me pretty and I’m happy. I want popcorn and to sit with Izzy as we watch allllllll the tea. Tons of tea!”

“You got it, shorty.”

19

I wasn’t wrong about the tons of tea. It was honestly ridiculous. Interrogating them was still going on when Leigh started putting everything out to launch the network. She went with a bang and shared a clip of the woman confessing she’d been having an affair with a commander from the Underground all over supe social media.

We all did. I had it all over mine that had millions and millions of followers.

And then it was just a countdown timer and how to access the new network on our supe dark web. That was it.

I was more than fine when the time rolled around, healed and even had a chance to get some really good sleep. I skipped the show of the first hour of what happened—including my intro of the idea—and tuned in when Shael did a press conference after to address it with all of the media outlets, including the new Faerie one.

She was brutal. She reminded people that the police held sting operations all of the time and no one forced criminals to participate in drug deals to get them busted. That was how the good guys trapped people all of the time. That they knew coming to Faerie was illegal but still did it anyways.

And for those who thought that wasn’t a good enough reason, I had diplomatic immunity so to shut their faces.

Nice.

Also, she made it clear that people should start apologizing to me which shocked a lot of those gathered. She sighed, and I loved her sass.

“Many of you were offended when our princess said that the focus on the clip taken of her talking with Commander Stefanie seemed like a diversion instead of focusing on that we were taking out the Underground. How many of you called her paranoid or deluded? And yet she was completely correct that someone in the media was involved with the Underground.

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