I took my keys from my pocket and unlocked my newly acquired office door and flipped the lights on. It was just dumb luck that I had them with me. After taking my shower last night I slipped my keys inside the pocket of my shorts. It's not a habit of mine to sleep with my keys in my pocket. I usually put them in a little glass bowl on my dresser every night. However since I couldn't shower or sleep in my room last night because of the invasion of fucking balloons. I emptied the pockets of the pants I had on at the ceremony and put everything in my shorts pocket. Thank you Skyler, even when you're a dickhead you're still a great Beta.
"Please take a seat" I told Penny gesturing with my hand towards the leather chair in front of my centuries old hand carved mahogany desk.
Actually all the furniture and decorative items in this office has been passed down from every Alpha in my family for the last five hundred years.
Of course the pack house isn't that old. Great Grandpa James built this pack house about one hundred and twenty five years ago out of the finest Alaskan yellow cedar. The only thing that has ever changed in this room is the chair behind the desk,paint color on the walls and the name plate on the desk.
Walking behind the desk I take a seat in the comfy leather chair with heat and massage built in. I take a note pad for the top drawer and get a pen from the pencil holder ready to take notes glancing back up at Penny
"Miss Penny, Please tell me what happened this morning." I said trying my best to sound confident and in control like my father always does.
Penny straighten her back and jumped right into answering my question almost before I finished talking.
"After I parked my car in the parking area behind the big garage. I took Megan out of her car seat and sat her down on the ground beside me. I closed my car door and as I was reaching for her hand a man ran from behind the car parked beside me and tried to snatch her. " She murmured as she gently stroked her little girls hair. A smug smile pulled at the corner of her lips before finishing her statement with "I pulled Megan behind me and beat the man with my purse until he ran off."
"Have you ever seen this man before do you remember what he looked like ?"I ask hoping Penny knew who the man was, and we could put an end to this quickly.
"He was wearing a ski mask so I didn't see his face or what color his hair is.The only thing I could see was his eyes and they were dark brown." Penny replied,lovingly stroking her daughters tiny little back.
"Was he a werewolf or human?" I continued with my questions, my concerns growing by the second.If this guy isn't someone local I'm not really sure what to do.Humans take matters like this to the police and let them handle it. Werewolves handle law breakers on our on.We never use outside authority because it could lead to exposing our existence to humans.
Penny become thoughtful for a moment then she looked confused before she answered "I'm not really sure he didn't have a scent."
Fuck! I screamed in my head it's the same motherfuckers that took Chase. How damn many of these fuckers are out there.I wondered to myself.
" Well did he try to fight you when you started hitting him with your purse?" I ask calmly, just to make sure.Reminding myself over and over again that an Alpha is always supposed be in control and keep their cool.
I'm pretty sure the man that tried to kidnap little Megan is a human. Based on the assumption of the fact that Penny is a small shewolf. She's only about five foot four with a slight build. Any male werewolf who want to kidnap Megan would have no problem running off with her and Penny. However Penny could probably beat a human male to death with her purse if she took a mind to do so.
" No he just covered his face and head with his arms and ran off into the woods." She said confirming my suspensions. He's human no doubt.
Other than his face tell me what he looked like. About how tall is he, is he slim or heavy? anything you might have noticed about him. What kind of clothes he was wearing anything you can think of that might be helpful ." I coaxed her, hoping to get a general idea of what the guy might look like.
Penny closed her eyes for a second I guess to get a mental image of the guy, because when she opened her eyes she started rattling of a general disruption.
"He was tall,not as tall as you but probably around six foot. And he had a lean muscular build .Other then that there's not much else I can tell you about his appearance.He was wearing all black clothes a long sleeve turtleneck with black jeans and black gloves."
"Thank you Penny, Hopefully security has found him, if not I have trackers out combing the woods.I don't believe he has had time to escape. I have all the boarders to the pack territory closed off right now and patrol is instructed to contact me if they spot anyone unusual walking around.If you want to stay here and go back to work you're more than welcome to. But if you need to go back home and rest I'll have security follow you to your house. Make sure to let me know if you can think of anything else" I murmured, trying as hard as I could to sound professional. After all this is the first time I have spoken to someone as there Alpha.
After Penny left I looked over the notes I was taking as I mind linked Security and my best trackers. My trackers told me exactly what I had expected. There was no scent trail they could follow and nothing left in the parking lot where the attack took place. How the fuck are these guys covering their scent so well are they fucking ghost?" I wondered.
The only thing that is clear right now is these bastards won't to kidnap a child boy or girl don't seem to matter. I'm also pretty positive that ransom isn't their motive.They didn't leave a ransom note when they took Chase. If money was their motive they could have gotten a ton of money from Alpha Mitchell.He owns several chain restaurants and a large liquor distribution company. He has a penthouse apartment in Manhattan and an Ocean front vacation homes in Gulf Shores Alabama. I know for sure he would have sold every thing he owns to get Chase back. On the other hand I'm pretty sure it's not the same with Penny and her husband.They have four Cubs,he works in the oil field for me and Penny only works part time here at the Pack house.
I'm sure Penny and her husband are getting by but they probably don't have a stock pile of cash just laying around or a ton of assets they can liquidate. I do know for sure I can't close my mind off because there's a lot of different reasons people kidnap little children.
What if these fuckers don't even know the kids they are trying to snatch are werewolves.
Perhaps their just fucking perverts and want little kids for their own sick pleasures. Or maybe it's an adoption ring it could also be for organ harvesting which would explain the drug Andie tracked to that first bunch of assholes. FUCK! Now my mind is in overdrive again thinking about all these different possibilities.
' DONG' Thankfully the sound of the old grandfather clock in the corner pulls me away from those morbid thoughts and back into presence.
I glanced over seeing it's now seven, Thank the moon Goddess. Now I can go pop those fucking balloons and get dressed then escort my girl down for breakfast.
Grabbing a thumb tack out of the top drawer of my desk I stalked out of my office straight to my bedroom and start popping . With in ten minutes I'm celebrating my victory all those damn balloons are now dead. After all the popping I glanced around my bedroom where I now standing among the carnage of a colorful display of deflated latex." Fuck! " I cursed,now I've got to clean up clean up all this mess.
Well I don't have time to linger so I get busy and within a few minutes I accomplished the cleanup, brushed my teeth and got dressed now I'm ready to go get my girl.
I tap lightly on Andie's bedroom door and wait a few seconds. I tap again this time a little harder, still no answer. Maybe she's still sleeping. I thought to myself. So I give it a good solid knock and wait a few more seconds. Hum, still no answer, I pushed the door open to poke my head inside just enough to have a peep and give it a good visual sweep.
Hum, no Andie now I'm beginning to worry a little. What if she fell down in the shower and hurt herself or hit her head on the side of the bathtub.
With that thought in mind I Stepped inside and walked straight to the bathroom door bringing my hand up to knock just as the door swings open startling me a bit.
"Ahh" Andie screamed throwing clothes in the air and making me jump." You almost gave me a heart attack "She breathed ,holding her hand over her chest .
" Sorry babe I didn't mean to scare you. I just got worried that's all." I murmured, pulling her into my chest for a tight hug hoping to calm her racing heart beat.
I patted her back gently and murmured softly into her hair " I'm sorry babe I was just worried that you might have hurt yourself."
She squirmed in my arms a little and called my name."Zack "
" Yeah babe" I responded,but didn't let go. I closed my eyes relishing the warm fuzzy feeling that was soothing my soul. With Andie in my arms everything seemed calmer and my whole world was at piece.
"I need to get dressed " she squeaked like a little mouse.
That's when I noticed all those little tingling feelings the ones I get when I hold her hand. They were on my arms everywhere that wasn't covered by my t-shirt. I glanced down to see my girl was only wearing a bath towel and
reluctantly released her taking a step back.
" Hurry breakfast is in thirty minutes." I murmured, stepping to the side for her to pass by.
"Will we be going to the cave right after breakfast?"she yelled from inside the closet.
"Yeah babe wear some jeans we will be riding the four wheelers instead of shifting into our wolf form."I informed her then took a seat on the edge of the bed to wait for her to get dressed.
I picked up the book on the nightstand to busy myself while I waited. Glancing at the cover I murmured the title to myself ' Kama sutra' WHAT THE FUCK! I screamed in my head.
Horrified at the thought of my girl actually seeing something so descriptive about sexual positions made my heart skip a beat.She's not ready for shit like this, not yet anyway. When the time is right she won't need no damn book I'll teach her everything she needs to know myself.
Immediately I scanned the room for a place to hide this damn offense reading material as I silently prayed to the Moon Goddess that my girl hasn't already seen the damn thing.
Unable to find a better place I yanked up the mattress and stuff it underneath away from my girls innocent eyes. Satisfied with my hiding spot I ran my hand over the cover smoothing out the wrinkles and plopped back down onto the bed before Andie stepped back into the room.