The criminal's alpha

Chapter 5

"What do you mean you 'Got some help'?"

"You know Alexandria? Alpha of a certain well-known pack in the west?"

"Mhmm, I had a run-in with one of her yapping beanie babies a while back," Jack and I laughed at that, if you could only give Derek credit for one thing, it was that he was good with insults. 

"Yeah, she lent us a hand cuz we helped her out with something."

"A raid?"

"Yeah, why?"

"That was my first guess, just keep your eyes on her, I don't want to hear about how y'all died on your way back here," Derek said and hung up, I mumbled something along the lines of Jack eyeing Alex whenever she isn't looking and got another sock to the jaw because of it.

"Shut up, cunt nugget."

"Very original insult my friend, very original," I said and started eating my burger, just in time for the waitress to swing by with Jack's steak, she set the bill down and took my glass to refill my drink. We finished our food and I paid for the grub, remembering to tip thirty percent for her humor, and we walked outside to leave when Jack grabbed me by the shoulder and walked me back inside. I shoved him off me and he looked at me with eyes that gave me the impression that he wasn't kidding around.

"What's going on, dude?" He handed me a pair of binoculars and told me to go to the window and look outside, the windows were one way so I looked where he was pointing and I saw a black wolf with blue eyes glaring at the bar.

"No way that's..." I said and grabbed my phone to see five missed texts from Jade, I called her immediately and handed Jack the binoculars.

"Jake, where are you?"

"Still at the bar, is Alex there?"

"No, she left and said she was going out, we think she's stalking your or something."

"Gimme a second," I said and muted the call, Jack looked at me with panicked eyes and I nodded my head, he got the message, it was Alex 'but why is she here?' I thought and unmuted the call "yeah, we see her. Any idea why she left?"

"No, all I know is that when you hung up she started pacing back and forth really impatiently, I don't have a clue why though," She said and I told her I'd call her back before hanging up the phone, the waitress walked over and asked us if there was a problem, and I assumed that she wasn't human because she did not look like a human woman, and gave off some kind of vibe that I couldn't quite figure out.

"Umm, I think so, I just don't know what to do to solve it. Jack, any ideas?" 

"Run?" I stared at him as if he had just spoken  Swahili, we both started laughing and the waitress grabbed the binoculars from Jack, she looked out the window and must've seen Alex because she gave the binoculars back and went into the back.

"We don't run, you know that. We can't fight her cuz we need her help with those trucks, so we have to get out of here without her seeing us..."

"Or going fast enough so that she can't stop us."

"Fair point..." I said and started brainstorming ideas when the waitress and some beefy looking guy walked out with crossbows in hand, raising Jack's panic level to a 7.

"UmmY'allll ain't gonna kill that wolf out there, right?"

"Hmm? Oh no, this is just to get her to run, whenever wolves come 'round here we chase em off, they can't do nothing about it, and most wolves are too violent to sell food to."

"Oh...alright then, Jake, I think we found a good escape route."

"Head straight to the bikes and drive the second you see her book it, and you two" I said glaring at them, I needed Alex and her mutts, whether I liked it or not, to get those trucks home "you kill the mutt, or put her in any excessive pain, I'll rip out your intestines and use them as jump rope," I said and they both gulped seeing the seriousness in my eyes, they left the diner and shot a couple of bolts at Alex, causing her to move, giving us an opportunity to get to our motorcycles. We got on and throttled the engines, and sped off in the opposite direction of Alexandria, I linked to Jack so we could talk while we rode back to the hotel.