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“What does that have to do with me?” I asked.
“She’s your friend.”
“And she ran off to Australia without a word.” I retorted. “If she needs help, let her boyfriend help her. She can go to him or call the cops. Plus, she’s a special commando—she can handle herself. I wouldn’t worry.”
“There’s more to the story than that.” Kaos pushed. “And she’s an ex-special forces soldier there. She doesn’t have the connections like she used to and if I’m right, we could lose her.”
“What do you want me to do?”
“Fly down under and give her a hand.’ Kaos replied. “I would do it, but Zoom is pregnant, and I don’t want her traveling right now.”
“And when you rush toward danger, she has your back.”
“Bingo.”
“This is short notice and getting time off lately has been hard.”
“Don’t worry about that—Tex will handle it.”
“Of course, he will.”
Rubbing the back of my neck, I wanted to remain stubborn. I wanted to hold on to my anger, the excuse to not getting as hurt as I knew standing face to ace with Taz and her man would. But the same heart she’d broken, was the same heart that wanted to save her, to protect her—to keep her from harm.
“I know you’re mad right now—”
“Don’t.” My voice cracked.
“All I’m saying is, help her now and when you go back to Thailand with her, you can be as angry at her as you want.”
“I find it funny you think she’s coming back, P.”
“What?”
“Nothing,khap.” I exhaled loudly. “Send me the information.”
“Thanks for—”
I hung up.
Though I didn’t want to be doing this, I started packing a backpack, wondering how I was going to get the time to leave. And was now really the time to do something like that? I was responsible for the training of a new police officer.
What was he going to do while I was gone?
And how would that affect my reintegration to my special forces team?
An hour of pacing later, someone rang the bell at the front gate. Instead of checking the monitor, I went outside to see who had come to visit.
Beam was standing there with a folder in one hand, and a duffle in the next.
As I hit the button to open the gate, I wondered what was happening.
“P.” He greeted me. “Sawatdii khap.”
I returned the greeting by offering him wai. “What are you doing here?”
“The captain wanted me to give you this.”
He handed me the folder and I immediately opened it.