***JAKE'S POV***
I had to hide the fact that Alex had slipped a note into my hand until we got back to the shop. There was work to be done today, but nothing overly major. I was also pretty sure that Jasper was going to want to stay close to the house just in case those men came looking for me or Alex tonight. This was getting tense for us, and I knew that, soon enough, we wouldn't be able to do anything but wait for the shoe to fall. Figuratively that is. We were going to be looking over our shoulders almost constantly until this story had been resolved.
And even though I hadn't talked to Alex about it in great detail yet, I was pretty sure that the way to bring peace to this story and for us to move onto the next one, was to destroy that band of crazies that was roaming the woods.