Page 36 of Trusting Her Bear

“I appreciate it.” I clear my throat. “I don’t want her to panic once she knows before I can explain,” I confess.

“You need to trust in her and yourself.”

“Right.”

“I’ll wait for your message.”

“Call Micah for me. I have to track down the person that sent it.”

“Sure.”

I hang up without saying goodbye. It’s hard to control my emotions when my past is coming back to haunt me.

I look down at my phone, staring at the number and memorizing it. I take a picture of it and dial another number.

“Yeah,” Kade answers.

“I need you here,” I say. Kade is one of the men I employ who work in the field.

“What’s up?”

“I have a mate.”

“Really?”

“We met two days ago.”

“Congrats. What else?” he asks, knowing I would never call him to come here just to chat about my life.

“I have someone interested in my past. I don’t want that person to come here and hurt my mate.” Thinking about some asshole disrupting the progress I have made with Steph infuriates me. “I want you to be her shadow when I can’t be.”

“Unseen?” he asks calmly.

“Yes. I don’t want her to know yet.” She is going to be pissed when she finds out.

“When?”

“Tomorrow morning. Tonight, if possible.”

“I can leave in an hour.”

“Good. Bring your brother,” I demand.

“Alright. He was getting bored anyway.” Cash is his brother and the more easygoing of the two.

“Do you need me to arrange a place to stay?”

“I’m good. We can handle it,” he says. “Do we need to be prepared for a bunch of your friends being pissed you called us instead of them?”

I roll my eyes. “I need someone more neutral to the situation. Plus, they are all mated, and I don’t want to put their mates in danger.”

He snorts, “You think they are going to thank you?”

Asshole. “I am aware how angry they will be, but I can take it. Eventually, they will find out anyway.”

“I don’t care, I was just curious,” he say plainly.

“Don’t be. Call when you are in the area.”