disappeared. The attorney has the list for insurance purposes so he knows that nothing really important has gone, but she’s worried some other things she cares about might be missing.”
“It might be worth it just to get rid of him though,” said Nelson.
The Alpha grunted. Naftali guessed he was getting to the main point now.
“The reason for this meeting is that Cherise and Judith will be coming back to town tomorrow. They’re flying down. Zebulun has a friend who has a friend who owns a private helicopter, so that’s how they’re traveling. You three are to be there at the farm to protect them. Four people would have been better, but I know you three have set your sights on Judith, so I’m putting you in charge. There’ll be a few extra men from the pack available for outside work if you need them.”
“When is the cookout and pack run to be, sir?” asked Naftali, wondering how long he had to get everything organized to leave his job in the warehouse for a week or two, as well as plan the run and the cookout.
“Judith and Cherise arrive tomorrow, as I said. We’ll set the cookout up for Friday, and then I’ll stay out on the land somewhere in a tent for the weekend while everyone else goes back by bus. Zebulun will send down a couple of men with the women, and they’ll remain on to guard me and the women. That way there’ll be people Lutterworth has never met so he won’t recognize them.”
“Also they won’t be coming on the bus so that’ll make them staying on more invisible as well,” added Nelson.
“Exactly. Any questions?”
“Are you all right with the idea of Cherise returning to the brownstone to check her things?” asked Naftali.
Personally, despite wanting to be with Judith, he’d rather the women had stayed on the pack lands until Lutterworth was in jail, but clearly that wasn’t going to happen.
“I’d like to imagine that, after the weekend, Lutterworth will have committed a crime and will be in jail. But he might have reactivated his gang of adolescents. I’d say let the women do what they want but be careful never to establish any kind of predictable routine about your activities.”
Naftali nodded. He’d worked that out himself. What he hadn’t thought of was the boys being used by Lutterworth. It’d be very hard to avoid every schoolboy in case he belonged to a gang. That was going to make guarding the women out in public ten times harder. Well, they’d just have to catch Lutterworth at the cookout.
Not that he had the faintest idea how they’d do that.
* * * *
Nelson and Nahum went straight down to the foyer of the warehouse and huddled behind the security counter there, reorganizing the security schedule for the next two weeks.
“Two weeks should be plenty. Likely one week will be all it takes. Once Lutterworth is in jail, it won’t take the police long to deter any of his adolescent gang members from following the women,” Nelson said.
“The boys are smart. They won’t do anything they don’t believe they’ll be paid to do, and once Lutterworth is locked up, they’ll go back to whatever they were already doing fast enough,” agreed Nahum.
Nelson smiled at his twin. “In two weeks, she’ll be ours.”
Nahum shook his head. “You’re forgetting all about romance. Women like romance. Just guarding her isn’t going to be enough. Once her father’s in jail, we need to take her out to dinner and dancing and all that kind of thing. You know, buy her flowers and chocolate.”
“I’m good with that. It’ll be wonderful to dance with her.” Already he could imagine holding her sweet body in his arms and maybe kissing her at the end of his dance before handing her on to one of his brothers. Maybe they could even go to the BDSM club. He didn’t know anything about her tastes, but hopefully, even if she wasn’t into BDSM, she’d be inquisitive enough to want to go there for dinner and the stage show.
“Don’t forget some of the men