15. CHAPTER 15
CHAPTER 15
“I said no,” Cayman told Saber the next morning when Yosi asked him to come to the manor. He’d hated leaving his mate’s side, but Glyn had been sleeping and he hadn’t wanted to wake him. Had he known it was to have another meeting with Saber, he might have refused to come. That Saber had flown to the island to talk to him wasn’t going to change the fact that he wasn’t about to destroy his mate by agreeing to go to North Korea.
“Look, Cayman, I get…”
But he wasn’t about to let Saber finish. “No. I don’t think you do. If I die, Glyn would suffer. Hell, many mates don’t live when one dies. I appreciate that the North Korean facility needs to be destroyed, but I’m not willing to die to do it. Nor am I okay with killing all the shifters inside.”
Then he looked at Yosi. “Again, if Glyn and I need to leave, tell me. Otherwise, I would prefer you not ambush me like this.”
Yosi shook his head. “You don’t need to leave. But I would like you to at least hear Saber out. This isn’t what you think.”
He doubted that. But he did focus on Saber once again. “Fine. Talk. But I’m not going, period.”
Saber dipped his head once. “I get why you don’t want to go but we both know that facility has got to go.”
He did. “That changes nothing.”
Chadwick, had been standing against the wall behind his mate, doing what he always did, flipping knives and catching them. “Then how do you propose we do it? It’s not as if we can send a rocket into North Korea. Not only would we start a war with them, but every human government would use what we did as a reason to come after us.”
He had a point. But it still wasn’t going to be enough to send him back there. “I don’t think either of you understand that trying to go back into North Korea isn’t possible. For anyone. Not just me. Anyone . They will be anticipating it, especially if they’ve got the operation running again.”
It killed him to have to say it, but there was only one option. “I suggest you do nothing. It will suck for those shifters stuck there, but I’m not certain they would choose to be blown up either. We need to concentrate on finding those behind capturing shifters to begin with. It won’t stop North Korea since they had no problem using humans before they found out about shifters, but it will stop shifters from being forced into situations like that.”
“We have been trying to find those behind the attacks and kidnappings,” Saber said. “We haven’t been able to discover who it is.”
“Then send in a spy.” He honestly hadn’t understood why they hadn’t already done that. He’d even suggested it a time or two before, but they never listened.
Saber sighed as if he’d already been through the reasons that it wasn’t a good idea too many times to count. “That’s easier said than done. We have no clue who any of these people are until we’ve captured them. As much as we try to interrogate them, they don’t give up who they’re working with.”
“Please tell me they didn’t talk you into going?” Glyn burst into the room with fire in his eyes.
Damn but his mate was fucking adorable when he was angry. He honestly didn’t know he could love anyone as much as he did Glyn. Standing up, he put his arms out to hold his shaking mate. “No, babe. They didn’t. I already told you, I will not go and I meant it.”
That lithe body sagged against his in relief. “I know, but I also know they aren’t above using your need to help and protect others to get you to do what they want.”
“That’s not what…” Saber started.
“Actually, it’s exactly what you do, love.” Chadwick chuckled as he cut his mate off. “You have a knack for knowing everyone’s weakness in order to get your way.”
Saber scowled over his shoulder at his mate. “Who’s side are you on?”
Chadwick stopped tossing up his knives in order to step up to Saber. Leaning down, he kissed his mate. “Always yours,” he said. “That doesn’t mean I can’t call you on your shit. But I still love you.”
Cayman swore there were hearts in Saber’s eyes as he gazed up at his mate. It was something he’d never understood. How could someone as fierce as Saber turn into a marshmallow when his sassy, sometimes irritating, mate was around. Now that he’d met Glyn, Cayman got it.
Holding his own mate a little tighter, Cayman made an offer. “Give me a shot at interrogating anyone still in custody.”
He’d never done it before but to get in and out of hairy situations, he had the ability to read people. More importantly, he’d learned to get them to say things they hadn’t meant to.
Saber tilted his head slightly while still looking at Chadwick. His mate shrugged. “It’s not like it could hurt.”
The Council Chief nodded at Cayman. “Fine. He’s still in a cell here.” Then he turned to Yosi. “Can you arrange it?”
“Of course.” He typed something on his tablet before looking Cayman’s way. “Are you ready now?”
There was only one person who could answer that for him. A glance at his mate, told him Glyn wasn’t loving the idea, but it was better than going to North Korea. Glyn sighed and took a step back and turned to Yosi. “Will there be security?”
Yosi shrugged. “We can send in guards but he’s in a cell and we’re not about to let him out.”
Those pretty hazel eyes latched onto him once more. He hated causing Glyn any worry, but it was part of his job. And his mate was right, Cayman needed to help and protect innocent shifters. It was the reason he did what he did.
“Fine, but then I’m going with you,” Glyn told him.
That wasn’t ideal, but Cayman also knew he’d do anything his mate wanted. And if they could find a clue as to how they might be able to infiltrate those responsible for taking shifters, they had to try.
“Agreed,” Cayman told his mate before turning to Yosi. “I’m going to need everything you have on him before I go talk to him.”
Yosi tapped on his tablet then pointed to the tablet that had been on the table before Cayman. “I sent everything we have to that for you to read through. Just let me know when you’re ready and I’ll take you to the cells.”
There wasn’t much on him, since the Council only knew where they’d captured him as well as what shifter packs he’d attacked. But he had been one of the leaders, which was all he’d needed to know. For the moment.
Everyone else the human would tell him. How? Cayman wasn’t entirely certain, but one way or another he was going to find out what they needed to know to stop more shifters from being kidnapped and sold. That way he wouldn’t be needed to go rescue anyone and leave his mate’s side.
He was resolute to make it happen.
Taking out his phone, he called Yosi. When he answered, Cayman stared at his mate and told Yosi, “I’m ready.