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“She hasn’t given me any reason not to trust her, but I’ll see if I sense anything. I’m worried about Giselle, though, or I wouldn’t think about going back.”
Angela sat on a stool. “What’s going on between you and the Ambassador?” She needed something to distract her, and with Tristan’s eyes growing bigger each time he mentioned her name, she knew there was a story there.
He straightened his back, and he grew serious. There was definitely a story there. She liked making him feel uncomfortable for once. It would pay him back for the time he walked in on her and Blake at the family homestead.
“Giselle and I have worked together before. She is a hard worker and the absolute right person for the ambassadorship.”
“Relax, Tristan. You don’t have to convince me. I chose her for the job because I believed she could do the job.”
He cleared his throat, mumbled something she didn’t understand, and set his phone on the bar. She needed to file this discovery in her brain for later.
Out of the corner of her eye, she noticed a screensaver flashing across Tristan’s phone. It was the time and the date. November twentieth. She let her hand fall to the bar. “Oh, my goodness.”
“What’s wrong?” Mariah asked.
“It’s almost Christmas, and I haven’t started shopping. I didn’t even notice if the White House had decorations.”
“Don’t worry about that,” Robert said. “It’s not even Thanksgiving yet. You have plenty of time to shop, and a plan is in place for the Christmas decorating.”
She covered her face with her hand and then looked at everyone. “I have to pardon that stupid turkey. Whoever came up with that tradition should be shot and served on a platter.”
“That’s a relatively new tradition, Angela,” Mariah said. “You don’t have to do it.”
Angela let out a sarcastic laugh. “Right, because my rating is already so high. I’m sure I wouldn’t lose any points if I broke with tradition this year.”
Tristan said, “Thanksgiving is a week away. I will be back here in a couple of days, and we’ll go back, take care of the turkey, and come back here if we want.”
“Penny could probably take care of it, and we could do it here,” Mariah said.
Angela got off the stool and walked over to the fireplace, warming her back against the fire. “I’ll figure that out later. There’s something more important that we need to talk about.” I took in a big breath, held it, and in one big push, said, “I want to introduce legislation that will protect supernaturals and make it a hate crime to hurt them needlessly.”
Mariah and Robert looked at each other. Tristan’s face blanked.
Doyle said, “Hell yeah.”
Angela was determined, so she continued. “If all the human world knows supernaturals exist, they may be safer.”
“Do you think humans will ever feel safe around monsters?” Mariah asked.
Angela returned to the couch, finishing her drink as she sat. “See, that’s just it. They aren’t monsters. You know that, and I know that, but the world doesn’t. It’s logical that they would fear what they don’t know.”
After a minute, which seemed to stretch into an hour, Angela asked everyone, “What do you think?”
Mariah stood up from the chair. “I think you’re crazy.”
Angela looked at Tristan. “What do you think?”
“I’m not sure that’s a good idea. Some humans know we exist, but it’s easier to protect humans if they don’t.”
“How so?” Angela asked.
“It’s easier to fight a war on one front, not two. If we have to fight humans and protect them, it would just be too much,” Tristan said.
Angela clenched her hands. “Violence against supernaturals already exists. So how is that working for you?”
“It will get much worse.”
“If we get legislation passed, there would be penalties. It might make some think twice.”
