Pavel jumped when Kaden hit the desk, not because of the start of the sound, but because he'd seen an authority figure this upset before- his father. That time, however, the anger had been fully directed at him and it hadn't ended well. In fact it had been so bad Pavel had blocked it out until the accident with Katherine had actually helped reveal the truth. "I did not." He said, honestly but could tell from the look on the bears face that omitting the truth was a bad idea. Still he didn't want to rope one of the few friends he had left farther into this as he already was. "A friend helped. But it clearly did not matter. I should have known better- they were going to release information no matter."