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“Uh, yeah. I scared Ann, and she jumped into the river to escape me, and then I had to rescue her.”
Smiling, Darien shook his head. “She’ll never want to return to these woods again. Not when wolves are all over the place out here.”
“Yeah, I was just glad I didn’t accidentally bite her when I grabbed her shirtsleeve with my teeth to pull her to shore.”
“I’ll say. We certainly don’t need a lawbreaker to be one of us. Who knows what crimes she has already committed,” Darien said.
“We have another issue. Their friend Gerald was supposed to be bringing replacement tires for Randy’s truck,” Nate said.
“We’ll leave a couple of men here, though if this Gerald sees Randy’s truck is gone, he might just hightail it out of here, believing Randy had madeother arrangements,” Peter said. “He wasn’t involved in the break-in, so we won’t have him up on charges for that. However, if we see him, we’ll bring him in for questioning. The men we leave here can return as soon as we learn Gerald is in custody.”
Then they left the cabin, and Nate was glad to see that his van tires had all been replaced. His pack was the greatest. Peter handed Nate his and Kayla’s phones, and Nate was glad to have them back.
Randy’s truck was gone too. Everyone but the two men who were going to sit tight if Gerald showed up got into their vehicles, then headed back to town. It wasn’t Nate’s place to question the people they’d arrested, though he sure would love to know if they had anything to do with Durham Manning’s death and Phil’s disappearance. He knew Peter would tell him when they knew something, but maybe not right away because Nate was supposed to be enjoying this time with Kayla.
When Nate arrived at Darien’s house, he found Kayla and Lelandi talking to each other, and then they said good night for what was left of the evening.
“We’ll let you know what we learn,” Darien said. “We’ll let Nicole know if we find out what happened to Phil through any of these people too.”
“Okay, thanks,” Nate said. He gathered Kayla in his arms, and she practically purred to be with him again. “Let’s go home.”
“To the cabin,” she said, making sure they were on the same page.
“Yes. Absolutely.” Then he drove her back there. He hoped she would be able to relax and not worry about the housebreakers and being chased in the woods.
On the way to the cabin, they got a call from Peter. “Hey, when you reach your cabin, you won’t find anyone there. We caught up with Gerald and have him at the station for questioning. These people should never have come to Silver Town to cause trouble.”
“Hit them hard with charges and break them to learn what’s going on with all this business,” Nate said.
“We’re sure trying our damnedest. And just for your information, the men were both armed with 45-caliber pistols,” Peter said. “Gerald had a 9mm on him. You were right to run as wolves and come to us to stop them.”
“Yeah, that’s what we figured.”
“Okay, well, we’ll leave the two of you to get on with your own business, but if you sense anything’s not right, let us know right away.”
“We sure will, Peter. Thanks.” Nate ended the call and glanced at Kayla in his van. She looked like she was half-asleep, her head pressed against the window. He smiled at her. They were sleeping in late.
They finally reached the cabin, and he parked. “Do you want me to carry you into the cabin?”
She smiled, yawned, stretching her arms over her head. “Nope. But I’m sure ready to go back to sleep. We have a lot of fun stuff to do after we wake.”
“That’s for sure. Only fun stuff.”
They got out of the van, and he locked it up, then took her to the front door, unlocked it, and they headed inside, then locked up.
This time she didn’t race him to the bedroom. She was moving way too slowly.
He scooped her up in his arms, and she wrapped her arms around his neck as he carried her into the bedroom.
She kissed his chest. “Was I moving too slowly?”
He chuckled. “I wanted to get you into bed as quickly as I could.”
“That sounds awfully good to me.”
He set her down on the bed and began to undress her, except she kicked off her borrowed flip-flops first. He removed her shirt. No bra? He ran his hands over her breasts. She began pulling his shirt off. “Sleep first,” she said, sounding so sleepy, like she could just fall back on the bed, close her eyes, and pass out.
He smiled and kissed her lips and pulled off her shorts. No undies.
