Page 51 of Wolf Bound

“I don’t know. We were to meet back at the broken-down building, but I figure you know that since the sheriff found all our backpacks in there.”

“Where did you leave the vehicle?” Larry asked.

“About two miles on an old dirt road from the old building. The guys would have gone to it if they thought someone was after us and they would have left. I’m sure they would have tried to call me and when I never answered them, they would have left the area and not gone back for the backpacks. You have men there, right?”

“I’m not with law enforcement, but it’s a good bet that they would go there. So what’s the deal about the Suburban?” Larry asked.

He sounded calm, but Fisher wanted to put the fear of God into Royce. He glanced at Bridget. She whispered, “The vehicle for sure belongs to Reggie Olson of Denver. It’s not stolen. He’s Oscar’s best friend.”

“Man, are you handy to have around,” Fisher said.

Dan said, “I’m on it. I’ll get a BOLO out for the vehicle, just with our office.” He left the viewing room to get on his computer to verify information about Reggie.

“Hey, don’t prisoners get lunch around here?” Royce asked.

Larry said, “I’ll see what I can do.”

Deputy Sheriff Ricky Jones walked into the interview room. “I’ll escort you to your cell and we’ll get you something to eat.”

Bridget got off her phone in the viewing room. “Several families are providing meals for all of you for lunch. Tanner, Shawn, Brock, and Aaron are going to Hal and Tracey’s horse ranch because they’re in that area right now. Chase and Shannon Buchanan want Kira and Fisher to go out to their house at the cabin and lodge resort. Demetria and Everett will have lunch at Dan and Addie’s place.”

“What about Royce?” Fisher asked.

“Normally, we would feed the prisoner what they wanted, but since he has been so uncooperative, he’ll get standard prisoner food,” Dan said.

“Good,” Fisher said.

Then Dan gave Kira and Fisher directions to Chase and Shannon’s place.

“We’ll see you both in a bit,” Demetria said to them.

“See you,” Kira said, then she and Fisher got into her vehicle, and they headed out to the Buchanan’s resort.

“What do you think of the case?” Fisher asked.

“Either the other two men left the area to get as far away as possible from all of us who are searching for them, or they’re still in the area, trying to find Royce,” Kira said. “It probably depends on whether they’re loyal to him, or they’re afraid he isn’t trustworthy and will tell us everything about the kidnappings.”

They finally reached a beautiful two-story, log ranch-style house and eight cabins situated in the woods situated on a pristine lake. Also a lodge that appeared to have five units upstairs and down, based on the location of the windows, was near the home.

They parked the car in front of the house that had a big deck out front. They knocked on the front door. A beautiful, dark-haired woman answered the door, wearing a pumpkin sweater and orange jeans, all smiles. “Hi, I’m Shannon, and you must be Kira and Fisher, our wolf guests.”

“Yes, thanks so much for having us over for lunch,” Kira said.

“Yeah. We really love Yuma Town. Everyone’s so friendly,” Fisher said.

“We love being here and enjoy the company of other shifters coming through the area, as long as they’re the good guys.” Shannon ushered them inside and closed the door.

Two little girls came out to see the guests. They were adorable, wearing pigtails and were dressed in orange jeans and pumpkin sweaters, matching their momma. They hugged their mother, ducking behind her a little. “This is Sadie and Zoey.” Shannon patted their heads. A black Newfoundland bounded in, and she said, “That’s Muddy. And the two ginger and white cats sitting in the window are Sassy, she has more gold fur, and Shadow. So you’ve met the rest of the family. Chase will be here in a?—”

They heard a car pull up.

“Now,” Shannon said.

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Shannon had made ravioli for lunch and while she was serving it, Chase was making garlic toast. The girls set the table and Kira and Fisher placed glasses of water out for everyone.

“So,” Chase said, “we couldn’t find anything out our way while we were searching for the kidnappers.”

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