" Okay, is there anything else, did you ask Penny about how their relationship is now?"
" I did, I also found out that Penny's relationship with Doctor Charles wasn't bad when she was a cub. She said it only become strained when she was a teenager because of the consent arguing between him and Felisha.
But after she married Milo it got better and he remodeled his parents old house in Juneau to spend some of his vacation time with her and the Cubs."
" Humm, that's interesting" I murmured, as I silently thought about what Skyler said for a moment.
" Did you happen to ask Penny when the last time she saw him?" I ask, hoping Skyler had thought to do so.
" I did, and she told me he only visits the week before school starts, and one week during Christmas. She makes sure to take those weeks off work so that she can help him watch them because they are so small and quiet a handful. But from what I can gather It seems like Doctor Charles is a pretty good grandpa. Penny said he buys all her Cubs school clothes, school supplies ,and a mountain of Christmas presents. He also takes them places like whale watching and fishing during his time here in the summer."
I blew out a breath not feeling as confident as Skyler about Dr. Charles, but for now there was really no evidence to support his involvement in any way. "I'm still not totally convinced but for now let's focus on the evidence we collected from the cave." I murmured, pushing back from my desk and patted Andie's thigh to have her stand up.
My girl crawled her little boney ass off my lap and as I watched her sauntered over to the stack of black clothes we had collected from the cave. The view made me mentally correct myself, my girl's ass isn't boney at all. Actually she has a very cute shapely little ass especially in those tight little jeans she's wearing.
Caught staring at my teenage mates little ass Skyler's voice boomed in my head 'Fuck Zack, you're never going to make it four more years.'
I swang my head around to meet his eyes smiling smugly .'There's actually hope that I don't need to.'
'What the hell Zack, are you going to seduce Andie' Skyler sent back visually shuttering.
'Nope, I plan to get to know everything about my mate and wait until she can feel the bond. But in my quest to know everything about her. I found out that it might be possible for her to feel the bond in a year and a half.' I sent back , stood up grabbed Andie's hand,leaving Skyler wondering what the hell I was talking about.
I'll need to talk with Andie about this before sharing her secret with Skyler. Me and Skyler don't have any secrets between us but this isn't my story to tell. It's totally up to Andie if she wants to share that information with Skyler or Anyone else.
Andie and I made our way out the front door around to the big garage where my footsteps came to a halt. I glanced up to the corner of the building at the security camera wondering if it still works. I made my way on over to the door pulling it open as I made a mental note to myself to check it out when we get back.
There's a possibility it might have captured some footage of the guy who tried to kidnap Penny's little girl,since the employee parking lot is only a few feet away.
Andie and I jumped in my Jeep Wrangler and took off down the gravel road leading out of our pack territory towards my lab at Alpha Energies mining services in Juneau. It's the only office I have that's actually open to the general public.
Alpha Energies mining services offers everything from underground and surface drilling ,blasting, and exploration drilling, to geochemical,and precious metal analysis, for mining companies all over the world.
I started Alpha Energies mining services a couple of years ago. Selecting a location off pack land and hiring both humans and werewolves alike . So far it's been a good addition to Alpha Energies Corporation. It also gives a couple of my pack members the opportunity to live in a human town and still have the benefits a pack offers.
After about an hour I finally made my way to Basin Road,commonly referred to as Alaska's first road. Back in the day it was a critical link between Juneau and the Old mining communities of the Silver Bowl Basin. I took Basin Road all the way to Gold Street,turned back towards Seventh,and snaked around to twelfth. Hitting Egan Drive,avoiding all the tourist bullshit down town,heading straight to my mining services office out by the Airport.
One of the wisest decisions I've ever made.Considering there's no roads connecting Juneau to the outside world and all my clients fly in.
We pulled into the parking lot and strolled on inside. Where Madison my office manager and one of Skyler's resent conquests greeted us.
"Mr. Randolph, what a pleasant surprise." She babbled, then creased her brows looking confused "I don't remember having a meeting scheduled for you today."
" I'm not meeting a client today, I just came in to see Jessica."I stated, strolling on past Madison and straight back into the lab.
"Crap Zack!"Jes exclamed,when I swang the door open " You scared the shit out of me." She grumbled placing her hand over her heart.
I chuckled "Sorry Jes, I didn't mean to scare you."
" Is this our new Luna?" Jessica whispered, coming closer to Andie and me,so that Madison couldn't hear her. Madison is one of the two humans that works here.The other one is Rob Cooper, Jessica's lab assistant,who is at home right now ,sick with the flu. Something you don't need to worry about if you only hire werewolves.
"It sure is." I grinned spinning around towards Andie " Andie this is Jessica Miller, She's Skyler's cousin, Jes, this is Andie Hunt, your future Luna." I introduced them, in a lower voice also.
" It's so nice to meet you Andie." Jessica said politely holding out her hand for Andie to shake.
" Nice to meet you too." Andie replied, clasping hands with Jes.
" Skyler called me the night the two of you met, and I just couldn't believe it. " Jes squealed excitedly,quickly clasping her hand over mouth.Her eyes big as saucers as she glanced at the door .
I stifle my laughter shaking my head at her crazy ass. I leaned towards her and whispered in her ear "I know right, Who would ever think I would find my soulmate the night before my Alpha ceremony."
" Oh gosh Zack, I'm so sorry. I got so excited about you finding your mate that I completely forgot to congratulate you for becoming Alpha." Jes murmured apologetically. "Anyway congratulations, how's that going?"
" It's keeping me busy, that's the reason I'm here today. I want you to run some test on this." I said,holding out the black turtleneck for Jes to take.
Jes eyed the plastic ziplock suspiciously holding it up towards the light .Then flipped it around in her hand to look at the other side. "It's a shirt." She said perplexed.
" I know it's a shirt but it smells like the forest and I believe it can actually trap body scent somehow. I want you to run an analysis on it and find out anything you can." I explained
" Okay, but it will take me a couple days and I'll need to cut a couple of pieces of it off."
"That's no problem, just find out whatever you can about it and don't worry about cutting it up. I have three more just like it."
" If you don't need it back I can fax the results to you just as soon as I find out anything." Jes offered.
"Sure that works."I responded and pointed towards the samples Jes had spread out on the table when we walked in."Now finish up whatever you were doing and I'll take all of y'all out for lunch. I've been craving some pizza from The Island Pub, just been to busy to drive into town."
" That sounds yummy, I'll just leave those there I'm done with them anyway." Kes said pointing towards the table."There just some field samples from that guy in Australia he's looking for a new site." Jes informed me. Reminding me of how lucky I was to have her and her mate Drake working here.
They basically run the whole place without me. All I have to do is meet new clients and approve proposals that Drake has already worked up in fine detail.
"I'll go tell Madison to forward the phone to her cell and get ready. While you mind link Drake. I'm sure he's hungry as a bear as always." I chuckled, only because it's the truth.
Drake is about six foot tall and on the skinny side for a werewolf but he eats like a warriors in training.
" Okay, we'll meet you in the lobby, but what are we going to tell Madison if she ask who Andie is?" Jes ask, as she peeled off her white lab coat and laid it across the table beside us.
I shrugged slightly, I hadn't even thought about how to explain mine and Andie's relationship to humans. But it only took me a second to come up with a response to her question.
" We'll tell her Andie's my fiancé,isn't that what humans call their future wife."
Jes shook her head disapprovingly " Zack you can't tell her that, it's illegal here in Alaska for you to have a romantic relationship with someone under sixteen."
"Then we'll tell her Andie is sixteen, there's no law that says Andie can't look young for her age." I stated, letting my mind wonder for a moment to what Andie's birth certificate says since she was born in a human hospital.
Jes giggled, "That's true human woman spend a ton of money trying to look younger then what they are."
I winked " Exactly, if she ask anything we'll just say Andie has great genetics, which isn't a lie."
"That's true." Jes agreed
" Now hurry and get Drake out front,and by the way tell him,he's driving. I brought my jeep and there's not enough room for six people." I said and tugged on Andie's hand for her to follow me to the outer office. Where Madison sat at her desk typing away on her keyboard she's an excellent office manager. Actually she does almost every thing from answering the phone to typing up reports for Drake.
" Madison"I called to get her attention.
" Yes sir" She responded, snapping her head up to look at me.
" Forward all calls to your cell, I'm taking everyone out for lunch today." I ordered, mind linking Rhonda the shewolf that does the accounting.
' Rhonda' I called in her head.
'Zack, I didn't know you were here. Did you bring our new Luna, I can't wait to meet her.'
'Yeah I did, turn off your computer and come on out here. I'm taking everyone out for lunch today.' I sent back
' I'm not going if Skyler's with you. He had the nerve to ask me to have a three way with him and Madison.' Rhonda grumbled
'No, I left his wild ass at home, come go with us.' I chuckled through the mind link.
Thankful that I've never hooked up with any of the girls who work for me. Something my dad taught me,never mix business with pleasure. However that doesn't mean Skyler hasn't hooked up with almost every single girl that works at Alpha Energies Corporation. And it doesn't mean I've been a saint either, everyone knows girls always run around in groups.