Page 23 of Her Big Bad Wolf

Chapter 8

An alert had gone out to the entire Pack. Those boys had been spotted downtown. I knew it hadn’t been them squatting in the woods behind my house and stealing from my farm. Still, someone was and I wasn’t going to rest until I knew they were long gone.

Still, that night, Kyle showed up with another group.

“What the hell? I thought those boys were downtown,” I grumbled, earning me a few wary glances.

“It’s just routine, Isaac.”

“Well stop it. I have enough shit to deal with without your team traipsing through my farm. Did you know that someone’s been squatting out here? Your team won’t find anything because I already ran him off. And wasn’t a bunch of kids either.”

“How can you be so sure?”

“Because they built a nest like a damn gorilla out of my hay. Don’t you have a couple gorillas over in Westin Force?”

“Excuse me?” a rather large man said. “What exactly are you saying?”

“I’m just stating a fact. Someone stole my hay from my barn and made a nest of it in the woods. And he stole the eggs from my chicken coop too.”

“That doesn’t sound like a couple kids. Plus, what kid would be brave enough to come out here and mess with Crazy Sac? No offense.”

Kyle sniggered.

“What did you just call me?”

“It’s not me, sir. That’s what the kids in town call you.”

“Crazy Sac?”

“Yeah, sort of a play on Isaac I think.”

I growled. “Dumbass kids.”

“Ben, that’s enough,” Kyle warned.

“I’m just saying. He’s right. The odds of the kids being here are pretty slim.”

“But someone has been here,” Kyle reminded him.

“Was, is the word you’re looking for. Haven’t seen him in a couple days and everything’s been fine. Archie has a team coming out tomorrow running surveillance for me. Just to be sure.”

Kyle groaned. “I thought I forbade you and Archie from talking.”

“Yeah, but you weren’t serious about that. That stupid mole calls me for favors all the time. Least he can do is repay this one time.”

He shook his head. “I wasn’t joking,” he muttered under his breath.

I pretended I didn’t hear a thing.

“If they step on my garden and ruin my winter plants, I’m holding you personally responsible, Alpha.”

He rubbed his temple as if I was giving him a headache or something. If these fools screw with my garden, then he will definitely have a headache to contend with.

“Archie did ask me to come out and setup some cameras out here tomorrow. Personally, I thought he was crazy, but I can see now that it was a legitimate request,” one of the men said.

“If that’s the case, we can check the feed for the kids without having to come out here,” the big man agreed.

“Isaac, this is Silas Granger, he’s in charge of Bravo team.”