(BL) Hunting The Field Guide novel Chapter 259

Chapter 259: Mom to the rescue?

A knock sounded at the door and Kellen wondered who got past Maeve.

Both the Captain and Casper froze, and Kellen had to detach himself from Rhys, and use one hand holding onto the bookshelf to get to the door since his cane was behind the desk. Unlocking the door, he opened it slightly to stare into the same eyes he had.

"Mom?" He said, startled and she frowned at him.

"Why aren’t you opening the door more?" She demanded and Kellen glanced behind her to find Maeve looking shocked and Brent with the smaller Guide Kellen had left him in charge of. Brent looked a little guilty, but didn’t apologise.

"Uh, well,"

"Are you and Rhys getting up to something you shouldn’t in your office?" She asked, not quietly at all. Kellen’s cheeks flushed.

"Mom! Of course not!" Kellen felt his voice get a little shrill. He cleared his throat. "No. I’m having a...impromptu meeting. What brings you here? I didn’t think you’d leave Dad’s side." Her face fell and her cheeks flushed.

"Your Dad got uh, a little angry at me and told me to give him some space." She mumbled and Kellen smirked. So she’d hovered a little too close to him and he’d finally snapped. Figured. Kellen’s grip tightened on the door.

"So you came to bother me?" Kellen asked and she huffed.

"I didn’t come to bother you. I came to ask about the kid, where you found him, and if you’d heard any news about who’d done this yet?" Kellen shook his head.

"I’m not sending my Mom who can turn invisible to commit crimes, alright? Not happening." Kellen stated clearly and she scoffed.

"Who said anything about crimes?"

"Your glowing, purple eyes, Mom. No. He’s here now, and he’s going to be fine." Brent did look apologetic then.

"We ran into her when we were leaving the Medical Bay. I saw your text, but I couldn’t just-" Kellen raised his free hand, cutting him off.

"It’s alright, Brent. Um, while you are here..." Kellen looked over his shoulder at the still shaking and trembling Casper, who the Captain was now hugging, trying to comfort him. "Mom, I think I have a present you can bring to Dad to win his favour back." His Mom’s eyes narrowed.

"What kind of meeting were you having that would have a present he’d like?" Kellen’s expression was grim.

"Well, let’s just say, you’re going to bring our newest recruit, and the Guild’s oldest recruit, and Dad’s going to be able to baby them both." No one understood his words, and Kellen was fine with that. They would understand in time.

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The office was too small for everyone to enter at once, so after everyone had rotated in and out of the small space. Maeve had generously let everyone overflow into the main office with the scientists on a coffee break, and Kellen got to catch Brent up on everything that had happened without violating Rhys or Casper’s privacy. Of course, Kellen told Brent that Gunther had a fucked up perception of love, and Brent didn’t need to hear more.

He was stone faced, and at first, Kellen had worried he was upset in some capacity, but he found out he was only thinking about how he could trick the man into therapy. Brent quickly ran out of ideas since Casper as a honey trap was the only thing he could come up with.

It was a slight moment of laughter in the trying time.

Kellen’s Mom was all for Kellen’s proposed bribes. Casper needed convincing, but when Kellen told him that he could stay in the Guild, no one would know where he was (Gunther) and he could heal and take as much time as he needed, while still getting information and possibly home cooking, he folded.

Kellen’s newest Guide was a little harder to convince. Especially since he thought he was vaguely responsible for the violence committed against Kellen and his Dad. Kellen had to soothe and comfort him, and even bribed him by telling him that Casper was the man in charge of Guides. It was an easy way for him to get to know what would be expected of him as a new Guide in the Guild.

Everyone had stared at him like he had two heads when he’d said that, since everyone could see the kid wasn’t ready to start working any time soon, but it relaxed him, and got him to leave with Kellen’s Mom.

The same woman had all of Casper’s bags in her hand, as well as Rhys’ keys to his apartment. She waved at Kellen, a muscle twitching in her jaw, but at least when she hugged Kellen she’d seemed more stable internally.

With Dad awake now, she was going to be able to relax. At least somewhat. He didn’t think things would ever go back to what they had been before until they found the fuckers who did this.

Even then, it was probably going to take her a lot to go back to the house. He knew that the attack hadn’t happened there, but she’d heard the news there.