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Spencer shrugged and held his hands out before him. “I’m just that good.”
Aidyn chuckled. “Modest too.”
He sauntered toward the back door and out to his truck. Tate and Lara were outside with Adelaide and Henry listening to someone on the phone.
Henry glanced at him and grinned.
The voice over the phone was none other than Sheriff Cranford. “Carter saw him with his own eyes.”
Aidyn’s eyes shifted to Tate, who had a slight grin on his face. “As I said Sheriff, we don’t need your permission to do our jobs. We’ll go up there as often as we need to, to make sure the BRR isn’t planning any more of their assaults on us.”
“A heads-up would be nice.”
“Well, Sheriff, it would be, but then again, we don’t always have the time to give a heads-up and we won’t be reduced to having to call every time we have something to investigate.”
The sheriff grumbled and the squeak noted he’d shifted in his chair. “Alright. Gotta go.”
The call ended and Tate pocketed his phone. “I think Carter is a bit of a scaredy cat.”
Henry chuckled. “Can’t blame him, sort of. I’m sure all he’s hearing are the horrific things that happened. Not how for years there was peace.”
Aidyn opened his truck door and laid his computer case on the passenger seat and his suitcase on the floor.
“Yeah, he stopped me on my way to the sewing factory today. He said as much. I told him not to worry. We’re good at our jobs and know what we’re doing.”
Henry chuckled, “Then he went and tattled to the sheriff.”
Tate shrugged. “It’s good we know his personality. Let’s not rely on him for much until he gets his feet wet. The first time the BRR screws with him, he’ll be looking for us.”
Adelaide giggled. “Pussy.”
Tate clapped his hands. “Okay, ready to move?”
Henry turned toward his truck. “Yep. Looking for a good night’s sleep.”
Adelaide shook her head, “We need a new name. We keep calling it the sewing factory but, it’s not that anymore. Can we call it something besides that or the compound?”
Tate grinned. “Suggestions?”
“I don’t know. I’ve been thinking about it. So far nothing clever has come up.”
Aidyn chuckled. “Keep thinking. We all can.”
He jumped in his truck and watched as his friends did the same. Tate pulled out first. The bullet holes in his truck were finally fixed. It had been the welcome card from hell. At least Tate thought so.
He waited for Henry and Adelaide to pull out before he did. Maya and Spencer were just leaving the house now and loading up their vehicles.
Waving at them he moved out of the driveway and on to their new home.
Dusk was quickly settling in and the weather was cooler now than it had been this morning. Rather than turning left and following his teammates, he headed out toward the main road in front of the mountain. He found more and more the urge to drive along that road to see if he could see Elena moving around. He never could, unless she wanted him to see her. She moved like a mist. She could walk along the woods so quietly it seemed that she floated.
He slowed as he neared the large tree nearest the edge of the road. It was covered with winter creeper, a vine-like plant that eventually smothered out its host tree. But it also offered ground cover and Elena had left him small baskets with notes in them in the past. Now he found himself unable to drive anywhere without looking to see if she’d left him a note. It was purely childish on his part to be excited by anything like this, but he allowed himself the childish pleasure. They dealt with heavy ugly stuff most of the time, this seemed like frivolous fun.
He slowed as the tree came into view and pulled to the edge of the road. Jumping from his truck, he stalked to the edge of the road and peered into the viny coverage. He saw it. A small brown basket handle peering from the top of the vines.
Reaching into the vines for the basket, his heart raced, and his hands shook slightly. He pulled the basket from its hiding spot and practically ran to his truck.
As soon as he was inside, he took off for a safer place to look at what she’d left him. He decided on a spot behind Lara’s bakery, since she and Tate were moving into the sewing factory tonight.
