Page 31 of The Dragon's Mate

Her dragon growled with pleasure. Bishopgave her another searching look before pointing to the boardroom. “All right,let’s talk in the boardroom.”

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“Okay, so,” Bishop scanned the tablet in hishand, “you want someone to keep an eye on Tyler as he’s biking to and fromschool.”

“Corey as well,” Bren said. “He livesabout ten minutes from Tyler and Ty usually bikes to his place first and thenthey bike to school. Whatever the extra cost is for Corey, I’ll pay it.”

“His parents don’t know about whathappened?” Bishop said.

“He lives with a foster family,” Kaidasaid.

“Right.” Bishop looked over his notesagain. “You said that earlier.”

“I’m pretty sure they’re not going to payto keep Corey safe, but he means a lot to Tyler and I don’t want him getting hurtagain,” Bren said.

“There won’t be an extra charge for Corey,”Bishop said. “He’ll be with Tyler and it’s just as easy to keep an eye on bothas it is on one.”

“Thanks,” Bren said with a quick glance atKaida. “I’m hoping it will only be for a couple of weeks.”

“You think this Jeff kid is gonna loseinterest?” Bishop said. “Because from what you’ve told me, I doubt that’llhappen.”

“No, but Kaida has agreed to show Corey andTyler some ways to protect themselves and how to fight if Jeff does approachthem. Once they’re better prepared, we’ll ease off on the extra security.”

Bishop’s mouth dropped open and he staredat Kaida. “You’re teaching them how to fight?”

“Yes,” she said.

“I’m bringing them by her place Wednesdaynight for their first lesson,” Bren said.

She didn’t think Bishop’s jaw could dropany further, but she was wrong.

“You’re training them at your place?” Bishopsaid to her when he’d lifted his jaw up off the boardroom table.

“What? What am I missing?” Bren said.

“Nothing,” Kaida replied. “Bishop just knowshow much our clan values their privacy.”

“I know, and I promise that the boys willbe respectful and not bother any of the other bear shifters,” Bren said.

Bishop sat back in his chair, his gaze stilltrained on Kaida. “The council agreed to this?”

“Yes.” She cut him a look that saidwewill talk about this later.

Bren was studying her and Bishop, and shetried to look nonchalant. She didn’t know many humans, but Bren seemed weirdlyattuned to when she was lying or hiding something. And it had more to do than withher being shit at lying.

Ya think? He’s a cop, Kaida. He gets paidto know when people are lying to him.

“Okay, well, I’ll look over the schedule andassign someone to Tyler and Corey starting this afternoon,” Bishop said.

“Thanks, I appreciate it.” Bren’s surprisewas written all over his face.

Bishop frowned. “Of course. Did you thinkI’d say no?”

Bren didn’t reply, and Bishop looked overthe tablet again. “Most likely it will be Davis with Ronin subbing in on hisdays off.”

“All right. If they can, I’d prefer ifTyler didn’t know he was being watched over,” Bren said.

“Yeah, that shouldn’t be a problem. I’llhave Willow type up an estimate of the fees and email it to you in a couple ofhours. Initial off on it and email it back. All right?”

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