Page 15 of Guarding the Doctor
“I’ll go help him,” I said as I hustled across the cafeteria.
With the distraction gone, everyone went back to their food. Turning away from prying eyes, I stopped in front of Yuri and poked him in the stomach with my finger. It was like tapping against a concrete wall.
“Yuri,” I hissed, “Get it together.”
He blinked like he was coming out of a trance. “My mate,” he said urgently. “The redhead. She is mine. I must talk to her.”
“Her name is Stacy,” I said patiently. “She’s a nurse here in the Emergency Department so you’ll be working in the same area. You can talk to her later, you need to focus on the mission right now.”
His eyes cleared and he straightened his spine as he came back to himself. “Yes, sorry new vampire.”
I rolled my eyes. How long did a person have to work on this team before people bothered to remember your name?
“Darla,” I reminded him.
“Ah yes, sister of Bella.”
I smelled the sweet scent of my mate right before she walked up beside me. “Is everything okay here?”
I looked around to make sure no one else was in ear shot, then whispered, “This is Yuri, he’s part of our team.”
She held out her hand. “Hi Yuri, thank you for coming. I’m Dr. Kathryn O’Brian. Please call me Kathryn.”
I loved the way she always introduced herself that way, it was endearing.
“Very pleased to meet you,” Yuri said in his heavily accented voice, giving her hand a firm squeeze.
When I growled in warning, he released her hand, his eyes bouncing between us. He looked delighted.
“This is good thing. Two of us, just like the kindergarten.”
I knew he was referring to his brother and my sister both finding their mates on a job they worked together a while back. Lois wasalready irritated about me finding Kathryn, she was going to be apoplectic when she learned that Yuri was compromised too.
“We’d better finish our lunch before we get paged,” I told my mate, wanting her to get some nourishment besides that piece of toast she’d eaten hours ago. She didn’t eat enough. “We’ll see you later Yuri.”
“You will introduce me later, yes?” he asked.
“Yes, I promise. Now get back to work.”
As we walked back to the table, Kathryn shot me a curious look. “What was that about?”
“He, uh, likes Stacy.”
She shook her head as she realized the meaning. “Does he think she’s his fated mate?” she asked incredulously.
“Yeah.”
“Doesn’t your company have a policy about personal relationships on the job?”
“Not really,” I shrugged. “I mean, Lois wants us to keep things separate during the job, but she also knows that supes struggle to do that.”
Even though I dismissed it, I couldn’t help but wonder if Lois was going to fire me after this. She hadn’t fired any of the other agents, but they’d all been longer term employees when they found their mate. I liked working for Sapphic Security. I didn’t want to lose my job. And I really didn’t want to embarrass my sister, not after she vouched for me to get the job.
I just needed to keep my focus where it was supposed to be – on protecting the doctor.
Kathryn
“Push eight mgs of Zofran in his IV please, Stacy.”
