19. CHAPTER 19
CHAPTER 19
Two whole fucking weeks of spending their days sitting with Christian and Glyn was getting tired of it. Especially, when the man continued to whine about being watched all the time.
How his mate had done it, Glyn would never know. At least Glyn got to move around some. Cayman sat still as a statue for up to eight hours every damn day. Talk about exhausting. But it had worked. They finally had several solid leads.
Yosi had found Christian’s home and Saber had sent a team in to first watch it and see if anyone was coming or going that might have seemed suspicious. When no one had, they had gone in and torn it apart piece by piece in order to find any information on who Christian worked with.
That’s where they’d hit gold.
“Are you certain about this?” Cayman asked Yosi after he read the file on two humans they thought were helping to run the operation. They still weren’t the top guys, but they were fairly high up based on Yosi’s research.
“We are,” Saber said from the video screen on the wall. “I’ve got three people ready to work on infiltrating their operations.”
“Good.” Cayman had been happy to no longer sit and watch Christian. He had the patience of a saint, but his mate preferred action to just waiting and that worried Glyn. “What about the shifters taken, have we found any of them?”
Glyn couldn’t help but stiffen. Now that he no long had to deal with Christian, he’d be sent out on another mission and he honestly didn’t know how he felt about it.
“Yes,” Saber informed him. “When you’re ready, we need you to go into Venezuela. There is a state run coal mine that we believe is using shifters.”
“I’m going to need a couple of days to work the kinks out of my sore muscles from sitting so fucking still, but then I should be ready.” Cayman’s casual acceptance of the job sent a chill down Glyn’s spine.
His mate hadn’t even talked to him about it. Not about to sit around and be completely dismissed, he got up and left, not stopping until he was at the cove. Quickly stripping, he shifted and dove into the water, letting his penguin take over for a while.
He just couldn’t handle that his mate didn’t take him into consideration at all. It hurt far more than he would have imagined. He had no idea how long he swam, but he was exhausted when he went back to the shore to find his mate waiting there for him.
As much as it had helped somewhat to let his penguin take over for a while, he was still too emotional to deal with him at the moment. Still, he needed to get to his clothes because even though shifters didn’t really worry too much about nudity, he also wasn’t about to walk around naked.
Shifting, he reached for the towel Cayman held out for him. “I’m sorry,” Cayman told him. “I should have talked to you first. But we’ve already discussed that I couldn’t just stop helping people.”
Yeah, he knew that, but he also swore he’d clear it with Glyn first. “Since my opinion clearly doesn’t matter, go.” Like he said, he so wasn’t emotionally ready to have that conversation.
There was hurt mixed with guilt in those mahogany eyes. “That’s not true. You’re everything. But I have to do this. It’s just not something I can bury my head in the sand about.”
That much he knew about his mate. They might still be learning about each other, but Glyn knew his mate was too strong-willed to not do something about a problem. He just wished he’d do the same when it came to him.
“I get that, I do,” Glyn conceded. “But I’m not okay with being pushed to the side whenever you need to go play hero. And that’s what you did by accepting that assignment without discussing it with me first.”
Cayman dropped his head for a moment. When he looked back up at Glyn, his gaze was filled with sorrow. “You’re right. I should have talked to you. I’m sorry. Do you want me not to go?”
“How dangerous is it?” Fear of losing Cayman when they’d only recently found each other was painful and it was making him a bit irrational. He tried to force it down or he was bound to beg Cayman not to leave him.
“Every mission has some danger to it, but I swear I’m very careful.” Cayman pulled him into those strong arms. His lips gently brushing his temple as he said, “Once I find out for certain they’re using shifters and come up with a plan to get them out, I’ll be able to call in reinforcements. I won’t be going in alone like I had to in North Korea.”
That did help ease the huge knots that had set up residency in Glyn’s gut. But there was no way they would completely go away until his mate was safely home with him again.
“Okay. Go, but you better come back to me in one piece.” He didn’t like it, hell, he hated it, but he also couldn’t get in his mate’s way. Glyn refused to be the one who made Cayman miserable.
Warm lips met his and Glyn just sank into the kiss, pouring all his love into the act.
Five days. Five whole fucking days. That’s how long Cayman had been gone and Glyn was going out of his mind with worry. Yes, he’d heard from his mate every day, several times, but troops had gone in two hours ago and Glyn had been too damn chicken to watch in the main command center with Yosi.
Instead, he’d shifted and swam. He let his penguin take over so he didn’t have to think about it, not that it had helped. His penguin was just as panicked as he was.
Unable to take it any longer, he shifted back and got dressed before sitting on the beach just staring at the water. He desperately needed his mate to come home safely.
“Want some company?” his brother asked as he plopped down next to him.
“I want my mate home,” was his reply.
Jarvis nodded. “I know. But hopefully our family is still out there somewhere and I’d like to think they will one day be found. That can’t happen without people like Cayman.”
Glyn knew that. He did. And yes, he definitely wanted his family found. “So what you’re telling me is to put my big boy panties on and deal.”
“Pretty much,” Jarvis agreed. “And yep, I know that’s easier said than done, but worrying yourself to death isn’t helping anyone.”
He knew that. He did. Hell, his mate had taken risks calling him several times a day. It had put him in more danger to keep leaving his hiding spot while he’d watched the mine for weaknesses. “I know. It’s just…”
“Hard?” Jarvis finished for him. “Obviously, I have no idea what it’s like to have a mate in danger, but I can imagine and yeah, it definitely sucks. But we’ve seen Cayman work. He’s damn good. Trust that he will do everything in his power to safely come back to you.”
“Because I always will.”
Glyn whirled around at the sound of his mate’s voice and leapt up straight into his arms. “I love you so damn much,” he told Cayman.
His mate held him tight. “I love you too, mate. And Jarvis is right. I am going to do everything in my power to always come back to you. You are my world and I would never do anything to hurt you.”
When their lips met, it was like coming home. There was nowhere in the world he rather be.
Cayman grinned down at him. “I have a surprise for you.”
“Oh?” he asked.
Cayman looked over at Jarvis. “You too. Follow me.”
They went up the front of the manor where dozens of shifters were being fed. His gaze zeroed in a sight he’d feared he’d never see again.
“Mom,” both he and Jarvis yelled before running to where she, dad and their sister, Camila were seated. They surged to their feet and did a group hug.
Glyn looked over his sister’s head to where his mate was grinning at them and mouthed, ‘thank you.’
He really was the luckiest shifter in the world to have just an amazing mate. And now he had his family back. Yeah, he might have to deal with what Cayman did, but he would do it, because without him, he wouldn’t be holding his family again.
Didn’t hurt that Cayman was Glyn’s world and he’d do anything for him. Even if it meant Making Waves once in a while.