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“Yeah, that’s what you told me,” Peter said, but he didn’t budge from doing his duty.
The man shook his head, muttering obscenities. But he finally complied. Peter and the others took him out to one of the deputies’ vehicles and drove him to the sheriff’s office.
Blake sighed. “Well, they’ll let us know what they discover about this man. I don’t believe his story about just meeting Manning and then coming for his keys so he could earn a couple hundred dollars.”
“Me either.” Kayla heard the door open again, though people were always coming and going, but when she looked, she saw Nate hurrying into the lodge, headed straight for them, warming her all over. He was like a bit of sunshine in her life, no matter what was going on. She smiled at him. “Don’t tell me you came to rescue me.”
Nate gave her a hug. “Yeah. Well, and I’m deputized too, so I thought if you all needed me, I would be here for you. Where is he?”
She knew he’d wanted to come and check on her personally, which she thought was truly heroic. “Well, I appreciate it. You just missed him. Peter hauled him off.”
“Oh, good. I’m glad they’ve taken him into custody to learn what this is about.”
Roxie quickly joined them. “I was dealing with a plumbing issue in the lobby restroom with our plumber. I can’t believe the guy who left the keys in the safe was an armed robber. Blake texted me and sent a photo of Durham Manning. He was the black-haired, muscle-bound guy in the woods we saw talking to the blond while we were on our run, wasn’t he?”
“Yeah,” Kayla said, not wanting to bring that bit of news up again.
“Which you should have told Landon and me about already,” Blake scolded.
“What’s this?” Landon asked.
Blake told him what Kayla had revealed earlier about running as wolves and encountering the two men.
“Hell, Kayla, you and Roxie should have told us about it,” Landon said.
They wouldneverhear the end of it.
Roxie turned her attention to Nate and smiled at him to avoid responding to Blake’s and Landon’s comment. “Did you come to rescue Kayla?”
Nate was frowning, looking as serious as could be. “Yeah. Of course. If Blake can’t go running with you, just call on me.”
Kayla and Roxie sighed.
“But who is this other guy then if he’s not Durham Manning?” Roxie asked.
“That’s what Peter will have to discover. He said he’d called the FBI to take care of him though. The man’s not a wolf, and if this guy truly knows the armed robber, the FBI will need to question him thoroughly, learn his identity, and go from there,” Blake said. “He didn’t have any ID on him. I guess he just thought he could waltz in here, and if he was aggressive enough, we’d fold and take him at his word.”
Not long after that, Tom Silver came back into the lodge. “Hey, if you’ve got that set of keys belonging to Manning, we need to turn them over to the FBI agents. I figured they wouldn’t want them because the real owner might still come for them. Though, if the real ownerisManning, they’ll want to take him into custody for questioning anyway, so they need the keys.”
“I’ll get them,” Kayla said and retrieved them from the safe in the office. She handed them over to Tom. “I hope we get to learn what this is all about.”
Tom nodded. “The two agents are wolves, and they’ll definitely let us know what happened. If they hadn’t been wolves, they wouldn’t have shared what was going on.”
“Good show,” Nate said.
“I’ll let you know as soon as we learn something.” Tom saluted them, then headed out of the lodge.
“What happened to you?” Roxie finally asked Nate, looking at the wound on his face.
He’d removed the bandage, but the area where the chunk of hail had hit him was still cut and beginning to heal. “Uh, that was due to the fight with the hailstorm. Don’t worry though. I won.”
Roxie’s mouth gaped, and then her gaze shot to Kayla. And, no, Kayla hadn’t told her sister or her brothers about the injuries they’d had in the hailstorm.
“Were you hurt too?” Roxie asked.
“Not bad. We’re both healing up just fine. Luckily, we found protection under that massive stone ledge next to the creek,” Kayla said.
Blake and Landon were frowning. “The creek was a raging river by the time the storm let up,” Landon said. “That’s how come you went swimming in it?”
