Chapter 44 : The Beginning of the End

The phone rings a few times before Kade answers. The states are six hours behind us, so midnight here is only six o’clock over there.

“Seymore, nice to hear from you again. Raven and I were just talking about you,” Kade says after the initial hellos. “How have you been?”

“Do you have time? I’ve got a lot going on,” I reply, heading out to Doc’s garden to speak to him in private.

It takes me a good hour to fill him in on everything going on. Kade asks his questions as we talk, congratulating me on my relationship with Ava, and then lecturing me for not calling him sooner when it came to the Duncan problem.

“You know I could have helped, he’s someone I do business with,” Kade had scorned.

I love that he wants to help, but I’m used to taking care of my problems on my own. Suddenly having a large support group of friends is taking some adjusting on my part.