Special note: It's been eight years since Never Pull On A Wolf's Tail Happened and Cheshire Finds a Kitten.

Tizzy’s cellphone starts ringing.

“Hello”

“Tizzy, this is Handan’s mother. She hasn’t come home from school yet.”

“Did you call the school to see if she stayed after?”

“Yes, I did and the principal said that she left the school and boarded the bus.”

“Okay, I’m on my way. Maybe one of her friends saw something.”

“Thanks Tizzy.”

“No problem Mrs. Keawe. I consider her my little sister.”

Tizzy hangs up and grab her car keys. Her mother was out of town doing a lecture at Ohio State University. A professor she personally knew had asked if she wouldn’t mind giving a lecture and telling them about her experience working with big cats. She took Sher-Khan with her.

“Come on Simba. We’re going for a car ride.”

Simba comes walking in from the backyard and rubs up against Tizzy. She reaches for his collar and put it around his neck. She grabs his leather leash and take him out to the SUV she uses. Her Uncle Jack said she could keep the Suv for herself. Tizzy heads towards one of Handan’s friends house to see if they might know what happened to her. She pulls up into the parking lot of the apartment complex she lived in.

“Alright Simba, guard the car.” She leaves the A/C running for Simba.

She walks up to the second floor and knock on apartment 208 door.

The door opens and a middle age Polynesian woman with long black hair answers the door.

“Good afternoon Mrs. Kahue, I was wondering if I could speak with Tabby please?”

“What’s wrong Tizzy?”

“Handan didn’t show-up at home and her mother is concern. So, I thought maybe Tabby knew something since they are close friends.”

“Come on in, please.”

“Thank you.”

Tizzy walks inside and Mrs. Kahue closes the door.

“Tabby, could you come here please?”

A young teenage girl comes walking into the living room. She notices Tizzy standing near her mother.

“Tabby, do you know where Handan is?”

“She caught a ride home with a boy from our school.”

“Do you know his name?”

“Yes ma’am. His name is Tadaaki Hekekia. I’ll send his picture to you.”

Tabby sends a picture to Tizzy’s cellphone.

“Thanks Tabby.”

“Please find Handan, Ms. Tizzy.”

“I will Tabby. Thank you Mrs. Kahue.”

Tizzy heads down to her SUV. Simba was looking at her.

“I know boy, you don’t like being cooped-up.”

Tizzy climbs back into her SUV and drives towards the address Tabby sent her. It didn’t take her long to get to the address. Tizzy parks and gets out and walks towards the house the address belonged too. She hears gun shots and a girl scream. She presses the hatch release for the SUV.

“SIMBA COME!”

Simba jumps out of the back of the SUV and follows Tizzy as she runs towards the house. She had her gun drawn and as she runs inside, she spots the shooter and the young boy laying on the ground in a pool of blood. Handan was laying on the floor unconscious.

“Drop it!” Tizzy had her gun pointed at him.

He fires at her and hits her in her right shoulder. She fires her gun and hits him in his left shoulder. Simba growls and starts charging towards him. He spots the liger coming towards him and runs. He dives through an open window to escape Simba. Simba dives through the window as well and chases the guy to a truck. The guy starts the engine and drives off. Tizzy takes a picture of the license plate and truck. She dials her boss and inform him what is going on and tells him she needs an ambulance.

“Simba Stop!”

Simba was starting to chase after the truck. He stops and turns around and heads back to Tizzy. Tizzy checks her right arm and notice that she only had a flesh wound. She walks over and checks Handan. She was just unconscious from the blow to the side of her head. After a few minutes, she could hear sirens coming towards her location. She pets Simba as she calls Julia.

Montana Police Department:
Julia was working on her paperwork. Sphinx was laying down by her feet.

“God, I hate paperwork.” As she finishes up the report she had been working on.

As she was grabbing another file to work on. Her cellphone starts ring. She picks it up and sees that it was Tizzy’s number.

“Hey cousin, what’s up?”

“Oh, I just got shot and I need some help.”

“Getting careless again cousin.”

“No, the prick thought he could take me, before I shot him.”

“So, you’re saying that your person got away?”

“Yep, can you run a plate number for me, please?”

“Sure.”

“AFE-326”

Julia runs the plate and an address comes up.

“Got it. I’m sending the information to you now, cousin. Let me know if you need any help.”

“I will Julia. Thanks a million.”

“Any time cousin.”

HPD:
Tizzy calls the police station and puts out a BOLO for the truck and the man.

Police Officer Hale spots Simba and Tizzy. He noticed that Tizzy had been shot.

“When are you going to learn to dodge?”

“He shot me at the same time as I shot him.”

She was scratching Simba between his ears with her uninjured arm.

“I see you brought the puddy cat with you.”

“Yep, I figure he might come in handy.”

“The suspect got away. I have a BOLO out on him right now.”

Tizzy tells Hale everything that happened and why she was here at the house. Afterwards she calls Handan’s mother and tell her that she found her and where she is. Now the thing that was bothering her, why did the other guy shoot Tadaaki? She lets the paramedics take care of her wound.

As she is walking out to her SUV with Simba by her side, her cellphone rings.

“Hello?”

“We found the truck Tizzy. It’s at Ala Aoloa Loop.”

“Okay, I’m on my way.”

Tizzy heads over to the address and notice there were several police cars. She parks her SUV and shows her badge as she heads inside. She finds the shooter laying on the floor in his own blood.

“He’s the bastard that shot me.”

Tizzy looks around the house and finds a desktop computer that was on. She takes a pair of gloves out and start looking around and comes across several pictures of young girls and an email sent to the guy that shot her for the money for Handan. She notices that there were several pictures of girls in or around Montana where her cousins lived.

Tizzy pulls her cellphone out and calls Julia again.

Montana Police Department:
Julia was coming back to her desk when her cellphone goes off again. She checks the number and notice it was her cousin again.

“Twice in one-day cousin. What’s up?”

“You might want to look at this cousin.”

Tizzy sends a copy of the email to her cousin’s computer.

Julia checks her email.

“Holy crap. This is a sex trafficking pick-up list. Does this have something to do with your case?”

“Yep, I shot one of their kidnappers.”

“Well, why don’t you see about coming to Montana and we can go and put these guys out of business.”

“Sounds like a plan. I’m bring Simba with me.”

“I figure that much, cousin.”

“Alright, I’ll tell dad to be expecting your Lear in five hours. Is Aunt Cheshire coming with you?”

“Nope, Mom’s in Columbus, Ohio giving a lecture about big game cats with Sher-Khan.”

“Oh, I bet the college students are loving seeing Sher-Khan.”

“He loves attention cousin.”

“I know. I’ll tell my Captain about you coming to help on this case. Do you want Gina to help on this?”

“Yea, we better tell her or she’ll feel left out.”

“Alright, I’ll see you in five hours.”

“Bye.”

Tizzy hangs up and calls the pilots her mother uses.

“Jerry, I need you to prep the Jet and take me to my Uncle’s place in Montana. Yay, I’m taking Simba with me. Okay, I’ll see you within the
hour.”

Tizzy takes Simba back home and grab her go bag to take with her. She also grabs her spare magazines for her handgun. If she needs anything else, she can get them from her Uncle. She texts her mother where she is going and why.

Cheshire’s response was be careful and good hunting. Tizzy drives to the airport with Simba. She brought a tranquilizer with her, because Simba hated to fly. Once he was aboard the plane, Tizzy gives him the shot to put him out.

“Alright Jerry, he’s out. You can take off.”

“Thanks Tizzy. How long are you going to be at your Uncles?”

“I don’t know, but you can either stay at my Uncles place or the hotel in town.”

“I’ll take the hotel in town. Your uncle’s dog scares the crap out of me.”

“That’s not a dog, it’s a wolf.”

“That can’t be a wolf. It’s too freaking big to be a wolf.”

“My uncle breeds them.”

“He breeds them to be that big?”

“Yep, he does.”

“Why?”

“Who knows.”

The rest of the flight goes quietly as Tizzy catches a catnap during the trip.

Jack’s Ranch:
Jack had been informed his niece was flying in. He drives to the airstrip to prepare the strip for his niece’s Jet. He turns all the landing lights on and has the tractor standing by to pull the Lear into his hangar while she is here. He hears the pilot of the Lear requesting permission to land.

“The landing strip is all clear for your approach.”

He stands by and watches as the Lear touches down and finally comes to a stop. He waits a few minutes and the door opens.

“Hi Uncle Jack.”

“Come here and give me a hug.”

Jack opens his arms and Tizzy runs to him and gives him a big hug. Jack returns the hug. He holds her for a few minutes and then lets her go.

“So, does your mother know you are here?”

“Yes sir, she said be careful and good hunting.”

“That’s sounds like your mother. Here, let me help you unload your things and wake Simba.”

Jerry pops his head out of the Lear.

“Hey Jerry, you can use the pick-up while your here.”

“Thanks Jack.”

“You’re welcome.” Jack carries Tizzy’s bags to the hummer.

“Has Julia or Gina gotten home yet?”

“Julia should be home in a little while and Gina’s on her way back from the restaurant with dinner.”

Jack steps inside the Lear with a needle to wake Simba up. Jack administers the doses to him like Cheshire showed him. After a few
minutes, the big cat starts coming around. Tizzy helps Jack get Simba out of the Lear. The big cat starts sniffing the air and looks in a direction behind Jack. Chaos was standing in the shadows watching everything. He might be turning gray, but he was still protective of his territory.

Mischief, Manes and Terror come out from no where to play with Simba. He takes one look at them and start chasing them.

Jerry was looking at the three wolf pups and couldn’t believe how black their fur looked.

Jack looks at the pups “Baile!”

The pups turn around and start running back towards the house.

“Come on Simba, house.”

Jack, Jerry and Tizzy takes the Hummer back to the house with the animals running behind them. When they go to park, they spot the old hummer parked next to a Montana Police SUV.

“Looks like Julia is home.”

Jacks walks into the house and grabs the keys to the truck.

“Here you go Jerry. I’ve already booked you a room at the hotel. I told them to put it on my account. Here’s a credit card to buy your food and put gas in the truck.”

“Thanks Jack. Tizzy, call me when your ready to leave.”

“Will do Jerry.”

Jerry walks over to the truck and leaves in it.

“Come on, your aunt and the twins are going to want to see you.”

Jack takes her and Simba into the house. Dinner is set out for the animals and the table is already set for everyone.

Julia still had her uniform on and Gina was dressed in a business suit.

“It’s about time you and dad got here. We’re starving.”

“It’s good to see you too cousin.”

Tizzy hugs her aunt first and than her cousins.

“Alright, lets eat and you girls can tell me what is going on.”

“Alright daddy.”

Everyone takes their seats and sits down around the table.

Gina was the first one awake like usual the next day. Even after eight years she still gets up early every morning. Thirty minutes later her sister and Tizzy joined her for her morning run out on the property. The wolves and Simba also joined them as they ran on the property. When the land behind and on the side of their father’s ranch became available. Both girls bought it to add to their father’s ranch.

“Do you have any idea on where we should start looking for these sex traffickers, Tizzy?”

Gina looks towards her older cousin for an answer.

“I was hoping Julia might know.” Tizzy looks towards Julia. She was a few years older than herself.

“I have an idea on who we can go to. If he doesn’t know, he’ll know someone who will.”

Julia knew a pimp that she had to deal with a few times. He never took girls that were underage and never got his women hooked on drugs or alcohol. She didn’t approve of what he was doing, but he did care about the women working for him. His business was disguised as a high-
class escort service. She knew not all the women that worked for him, were prostitutes.

“Are we taking the animals with us?”

“I have to take Sphinx with me. I might be needed sometime today.”

“It’s a good thing I brought the armor that Aunt Cheshire ordered for Simba with me home.”

“Mom ordered body armor for Simba?”

This was the first Tizzy had heard about it.

“Yep, Aunt Cheshire sent me Simba’s and Sher-Khun’s body measurements.”

“I wonder why she did that?”

“Who knows with Aunt Cheshire. She’s as mysterious as dad is at times.”

Gina speeds up to keep pace with Julia and Tizzy. She knew those two had to be in physical shape because of their job. She ran the armor
vehicle business that her father had given her. The business also included the custom personal body armor company that produce body armor for the FBI and other agencies. They also sold body armor to civilians as well.

She missed Arnold, but he had called yesterday and said he would be home next weekend. They were going to get married after he passed the bar for his Lawyer license. Her father had helped get him into the best law school. She had gotten an online MBA Master’s degree from a reputable company. Her father had told her and her sister whatever collage they wanted to attend, he would support them.

“Stop day dreaming Gina.” Julia was running backwards while watching her sister.

“Sorry, I was thinking about Arnold. He’s coming home next weekend.”

Gina speeds up again to match Tizzy’s and her sisters pace.

“Have you found anyone yet, Tizzy?”

A smile appears on her face.

“Yay, he’s a zoo keeper at the Honolulu zoo. I met him through mom. She was invited to attend a special function that the zoo was sponsoring.
I went along with her and the two of us sort of bumped into each other. I already did a background check on him. His father is an Admiral in the Navy and his mother owns several businesses. He has a younger brother and two sisters. He’s the oldest boy and second born. We had a family dinner a couple of weeks ago. Mom got a chance to meet his parents.”

“What did she think of them?”

“She liked them. They were kind of inquisitive about what mom did.”

“I bet she played up I’m only a simple Liger expert bit.”

A smile forms on Tizzy’s face from Gina’s statement. All the girls knew that Cheshire was as deadly as their father. Also, that the two of them
are partners with their own group of specialized trained operatives.

“Did Julia tell you who she is dating now?”

Gina had a playful smile on her face when she looked at her older sister.

“No, she didn’t. Who are you dating now, Julia?”

Julia just recently found out she liked woman more then she liked men. She knew she was bisexual, but most of the men she dated never did it
for her. It wasn’t until she ran into Christmas again, did she know she preferred women.

“Do you remember our friend Christmas?”

“Yay, I remember her. Didn’t she want to be a school teacher.”

“Yep, she became a middle high school teacher. She teaches English at the same school we attended. We’ve been seeing each other for a
year now. The school doesn’t mind our relationship, but we try to keep it low key. We don’t want any of her students to find out. She’s also working on her PHD so she can teach at the college level.”

“How did the two of you meet and hook-up?”

“I was called to search her car with Sphinx. Someone had called in her style of car saying they had seen her selling drugs. When I got to where
she had been pulled over, I was surprised to see her. The last I heard, she had gone to New Hampshire for college. After I did my job and asked more about why she was pulled over. I called in to get a better description. It had been a male that had a car like hers. Once I apologized to her for the mistake. She said I could make-up it up to her over drinks and dinner. We’ve been seeing each other since then. We’re talking about getting a place together and setting a wedding date.”

“That should make your father happy. One less girl to worry about in the house.”

They finally made it back to the house and Selina had breakfast already made for them. The twins were already up and eating their breakfast.

“Did you girls have a nice jog?”

“Yes ma’am.”

Tizzy fixes herself a cup of coffee and sit down at the table. She wasn’t a morning person, but Selina made the best banana nut muffins. She
grabs a few and munches on them. After breakfast, the girls head upstairs and take a shower and change into their clothes. Tizzy had her badge hanging from her neck and Julia had hers on her belt. Gina came out with her badge, which was a Private Security Contractor badge. The armor vehicle company had a private security, security force that she oversaw. Her company provided body guards to diplomats and had a few overseas jobs. Her father made her serve a year overseas as part of the private security contractors he sent.

The leader of the company she went with underestimated her and she showed him, that she could be as deadly as her father. She knew her father didn’t want her or her sister to follow in his footsteps. However, he made sure if they decided they wanted to, they would be well trained. He trained them to be as deadly as most of the other operatives he trained. The Private Security Contracting company she oversaw was named Cerberus. It was named after the three-headed dog of Hades in Greek Mythology.

She was dress in a black tailor-made suit. She had her custom made two-inch heel ankle boots on that had a steel toe. She was carrying her favorite .45 caliber Springfield XD-S. She knew Julia had her normal Smith & Wesson M&P 45 Compact and Tizzy was carrying her Sig Sauer - P250 Compact. All three women had concealed weapon permits and were deadly as hell with their weapon.

“Come on guys, let’s head out. Tizzy, you and Simba are riding with me. Dad already made room in the hummer for Simba and Cadmus.”

“Alright Gina.”

Tizzy follows Gina to Jack’s old Hummer and open the back for Simba to climb in and for Cadmus as well. Once both animals were inside, she
locks the back and walks around to the driver side and climb in.

Tizzy climbs in on the passenger side and secures herself. Gina follows behind her sister in the Montana police SUV. Sphinx was in the back.
Julia leads them over to an upper-class strip mall that had a lot of nice businesses and offices. She parks at a two-story glass building. Gina
parks next to her sister’s SUV. Tizzy gets out along with Gina.

“Gina, stand by your radio. We might have to introduce Vittorio to Simba.”

“Okay sis.”

“Come on Tizzy, let’s go talk with Vittorio.”

“I’ll follow your lead, cousin.”

Tizzy and Julia walk up to the entrance.

“He replaced the front door since my last visit.”

“Did you have something to do with it cousin?”

Tizzy looks at her cousin for an answer.

“Nope, I had nothing to do with it. A jealous husband found out his wife was an escort and came up here to confront her. He shot the door,
because the security guard on duty locked them.”

“Man, I can’t say I don’t blame him.”

Tizzy and Julia walk into the reception area and are stopped by the receptionist.

“Can I help you ladies?”

“Yes, is Mr. Vittorio in?”

“Yes, he is. Do you have an appointment?”

“No, but I know he’ll want to talk with me. Tell him Julia Bounty with Boulder police department and Tizzy Patel with Honolulu police department
would like to talk to him. Please.”

Both Tizzy and Julia shows their badges.

“One minute.”

The receptionist picks the phone up and dials her bosses number.

“Hello, Mr. Vittorio, there are two police officers here to speak with you. They said that they just want to talk with you.”

“Who are they Carol?”

“Officer Julia Bounty with the Boulder police department and Officer Tizzy Patel with Honolulu police department.”

Vittorio didn’t know why someone from Honolulu would want to talk with him.

“Go ahead and bring them to my office.”

“Okay, Mr. Vittorio.”

Carol hangs the phone up.

“If you will ladies, please follow me.”

Julia and Tizzy follow Carol back to Vittorio’s office.

As they walk in, Tizzy notices a handsome middle age Italian man sitting behind an expensive wooden desk. The guy himself looked like he could be a model or something.

“What brings you to my office today, Officer Bounty?”

“I need information Vittorio and I’m hoping you can help me.”

“Please sit.” He monitions to two chairs in front of his desk.

He was watching Tizzy. He could tell she was the officer from Honolulu, because of her dark tan and Island style of dress. She had long black hair tied back in a ponytail. Her make-up was perfect and the way she carried herself, made it seem she has had some formal training like ballet or maybe charm school.

“So, what can I do for you today Officer Bounty?”

Vittorio has heard rumors about this woman. She may look like an angel, but she wasn’t someone you wanted coming after you. She had the same type of grace about her, but he knew differently. She normally traveled with a huge wolf.

“I was wondering if you know who is in the sex trafficking business?”

Julia was trying to be all sweet with him at first and if that didn’t work, she brings the big gun in and scare his ass.

“I have no idea what you’re talking about Ms. Bounty.”

“Come on Vittorio. You know that we all know what you do here.”

“I have no idea of what you are talking about.”

“Vittorio, do you know who is trafficking women and girls through Montana?”

“Even if I knew, I wouldn’t tell you, Ms. Bounty.”

Julia and Tizzy both could tell he knew, but wouldn’t cooperate with them.

“Well cousin, it looks like it’s plan B.”

“I wish it wasn’t.”

“What? Are you going to threaten me with your wolf now?”

“Nope, someone whole lot meaner and bigger.”

Gina had been listening in on the radio her sister had been transmitting from. She smiles when she hears those words. She opens the back door on the hummer and let Sphinx out of the SUV.

“Come on Simba, let’s go make some new friends.”

Cadmus had jumped out and was following behind Gina along with Sphinx as she opened the door for Simba and the wolves to walk inside the building.

Carol had looked up from typing a letter when she heard the front door open and couldn’t believe what she saw come walking in. There was a huge golden color tiger walking in with a young woman with light brown hair walking behind it and two big wolves following behind her.

“Excuse me, where did you send the two women that came in here?”

Carol just points in the direction Julia and Tizzy had gone.

“Thank you.” Gina heads down the corridor with Simba and the two wolves.

“Are you sure you don’t want to tell us Mr. Vittorio?”

“Yes, I’m sure.”

“Okay.”

“Tizzy it’s your turn.”

Julia stands up and away from the door.

“Well, since you won’t talk to me and my cousin Mr. Vittorio, let me introduce you to someone else.” Tizzy opens the door and Simba comes walking in followed by Gina, Sphinx and Cadmus.

Vittorio stands up from behind his desk and backs away towards the wall behind him.

All three women smile as they watch Vittorio back towards the wall. Simba comes over and stands by Tizzy.

“Now, we try to do this the nice way, but you didn’t want to cooperate with us. So, we will do this the hard way.”

Tizzy smiles at him.

Tizzy looks down at Simba and in Gaelic “Simba, taispeáin an fear do chuid fiacla deas."

Simba gives Vittorio a wide smile, showing his big pearly white teeth.

“Now, are you going to answer my question or should I have my cousin have her tiger get closer?”

“I would answer my sister’s question, sir. You have heard what our wolves are capable of. Imagne what a tiger can do to you with those big
sharp teeth?”

Gina had a serious look ón her face.

“Alright, I’ll tell you. His name is Alexander Olson.”

“Where can I find him Vittorio?”

Tizzy watches his body.

“I can’t tell you. He’ll come and kill mé.”

Gina just smirks.

“What do you think we are going tó do to you?”

“You can’t do anything. You’re police officers.”

“Wrong! My sister and cousin are police officers. I’m a Private Security Contractor that operates under government rules. I can kill you right
now and my sister and cousin won’t stop mé. So, where can we find this Alexander Olson?”

Vittorio looks at the smaller of the three women who had two wolves standing ón either side of her. He saw her badge, but couldn’t read what it
said.

“Sphinx agus Cadmus, Fásl!”

Both wolves start growling at Vittorio.

“Okay, I’ll talk. Just get your animals to back off.”

“Ciúin!”

Both wolves quiet down.

“Simba ar ais.”

Simba backs away from the desk and stands next to Sphinx.

Vittorio comes to his desk and writes the address down and hands it to Tizzy.

Tizzy hands it Julia. Julia takes it and looks at the address.

“I know where this is. It’s a trucking firm about thirty minutes away from my police station.”

“Thank you, Mr. Vittorio.”

“Let’s go sis and cuz.”

Gina leads the way out followed by the wolves. Simba follows Sphinx with Tizzy beside him. Julia brings up the rear. There were people out in the hallway as they headed towards the front door watching them. There were four security guards with their guns drawn. The wolves growled at them.

Gina looks at them “I would recommend you putting your weapons away unless you want to go to jail or become these animals lunch.”
Tizzy and Julia show there badges.

The guards look at the three women and the animals. They noticed that the wolves were watching them closely. The guards back-up and put their weapons away.

“Good boys.” Gina had slipped her gun into her hand without them knowing.

All of them head out of the building and over to the SUV and Hummer.

“Well now, we know where they are holding them.”

“Yep, and as dad always says. We need to do some recon of the place.”

“How far is the place from here, Julia?”

Tizzy was looking at her older cousin.

“About additional ten minutes. So, about forty minutes total.”

“Is there any where we can park the cars and do some recon ón foot?”

“Yay, theres an abandon warehouse just up the street from it.”

“Lets go and park there.”

“Alright.”

Everybody loads back up in their vehilce and head over towards the warehouse.

Once the girls hid their vehicles. They change into their custom-made body armors and put the animals body armor on them. Gina opens the hidden weapon locker in the hummer and pull out three ACR with full combat loadout. She gives her sister and Tizzy one each and hands them their combat harness.They load out with flash grenades, smoke grenades and concussion grenades. They all grab a few custom-made grenades that her father had made.They had a sci-fi look to them, but were good and easy to throw towards an enemy.

All three check their earwigs and move out. Julia takes the left-hand side of the property with Tizzy coming around from the rear and Gina taking the right-hand side of the property. All three moved like they were taught with the wolves and Simba following like they had been trained.

“I spot three over here.” Julia informs her sister and Tizzy.

“I have two over here and they are guarding the trailers.” Gina informs Julia and Tizzy what she has spotted.

“That’s five so far. What have you found Tizzy?”

“No one is watching the rear. However, there’s a window on the of the building back that has been covered up. I’m going to get closer to see
what they are hiding.”

“Roger.”

Tizzy and Simba move quietly and quickly towards the back of the building. Tizzy scans the area to make sure there weren’t any hidden cameras or tripwires to alert the people inside. She moves up against the back of the building and slowly inch forward towards the covered-up window. She makes a small hole in the wood and insert a snake camera to look inside the building. She spots a bunch of women and young girls in a room sitting on mattresses and blankets on the floor. She was counting at least fifty or more.

“You girls won’t believe this. The room on the other side of the boarded-up window has at least fifty or more so women and teenage girls inside. There’s a single door leading into the room. The window has bars on them.”

“Is there a back door to the place?”

“Nope.”

“It’s on my side of the building.” Gina had spotted a door near the area her cousin was.

“Alright, there must be a guard on the inside of the building watching the door to the women.”

“I can move up and see if I can get inside and take him out, before you and Gina attack.”

“Alright, be careful. The door might be rigged.”

“I’ll send Cadmus to her. He can let her know if there is any explosives on the other side of the door.”

“Alright sis. Remember, we need to take some of these assholes alive so we can find out who is financing this operation.”

Gina looks down at Cadmus “go to Tizzy, Cadmus.”

Cadmus moves quickly towards Tizzy.

Once Cadmus was with Tizzy and Simba

“Cuardaigh an doras”

Cadmus moves towards the door and sniffs it and comes back to Tizzy.

“The door is clear.”

“Alright, go ahead and move to it. I got you covered.” Gina was watching the two men she spotted and the door.

Tizzy moves up to the door and checks it. She notices it was locked. She pulls her lock picking tools out and unlocks the door. She opens it
just a little and slide the camera inside to see what was on the other side. There was no booby trap or alarm on the door. She spots two guys guarding the door to the room the girls were in.

“I got two inside armed with AK-47.”

She wishes she had brought her sniping rifle with her.

“Okay, on the count of three toss a flash grenade and shoot their legs out. Cadmus and Simba can do the rest.” Gina had an evil smile as she
thought about how much pain those men were going to be in after Simba and Cadmus got done with them.

“1, 2, 3!”

It was Gina voice that had been counting down.

Tizzy tosses the flash grenade inside, just as she heard Gina shoot her two guys. She could hear over her earwig Julia giving Sphinx his attack orders. She moves inside and shoot both her targets in the leg, after the flash grenade had done its job of distracting them.

“Cuir isteach!”

Cadmus and Simba run into the hallway and over towards the guys on the floor. One guy was reaching for his gun, but Cadmus got his arm before he could reach it and bit down hard on it.

Gina was running up behind Tizzy. She had killed her two people unfortunately. Both walked up to the men and looked down at them.

“You’re lucky we need you alive, or I’ll let my wolf eat you.”

Gina looks at Cadmus “Scaoileadh!”

Simba was looking down at his person. There was a slight growl coming from him.

They hear a gunshot go off not to far from their location. They see Julia dragging a guy by his shirt towards them. Sphinx was walking behind
her with blood dripping from his muzzle.

“Here’s a present for you, Tizzy. I believe this guy will squeal like a pig or Simba can eat him for lunch.” She tosses the guy forward in front of all three of them.

The guy looks up and recognizes Tizzy Patel with the Honolulu police department standing in front of him. He was wondering how in the hell did she track him down?

Tizzy looks at the guy and an evil smile appears on her face as she recognizes who they had in front of them.

“Well, Well, Well. Isn’t it Veera Mahelona? What brings you to Montana, Veera?”

Veera just sneers at Tizzy. He wasn’t going to tell her anything.

“I don’t think he likes you cousin.” Gina was looking at him with a predatory look on her face.

Veera looks at the short petite light brown hair woman standing near him with an assault rifle in her hands. He notices she was looking at him
like she was ready to kill him. Standing next to her was a mean looking wolf wearing body armor and growling at him.

“He doesn’t. I busted up a smuggling operation him and his brothers had. He got away during the confusion and we’ve been looking for him.”
Tizzy kneels in front of him and looks him straight in the eyes.

“Tell me who is bank rolling your operation?”

“Pumunta sa impyerno asong babae. Wala akong sinasabi sa iyo!”

All three women smirk at him. They all understood what he said to Tizzy.

“Ikaw ang pipi bith, pipi asno!” Tizzy responds to him in the same language he used.

“Talking in another language is useless around us asshole. Her mother is our Aunt and our father speak several languages as well.” Gina and
Julia both smile at him.

“Now, why don’t you answer my cousin’s question? Don’t make us have to take a page out of my father’s playbook to make you talk.” Julia pulls her knife and start examining it.

Sphinx starts growling and moving forward towards him. Cadmus does the same thing as well.

Veera looks at the wolves as they moved closer towards him. He tries to back up and hears a growl behind him. He turns his head and sees a
set of pearly white teeth in front of his face.

“Now, you can either tell us who is backing you and what you are doing here in Montana. Or you can take your chances on outrunning our animals. We’ll even give you a five minutes head start. Which is going to be your choice?”

“Oh, one more thing. If you think we don’t have other people to get our information from. Think again. We have two people right here and I know my sister left some people alive up front. So, what is your choice going to be?”

“Will I be extradited back to Hawaii if I tell you?”

“Maybe, it all depends if they want you back. However, I will make sure everyone knows how you molested some young girls.” Tizzy had an
evil smile on her face.

“Boris Kuznetsov is bank rolling this operation. He’s a member of the Order of Ronova and operates out of Phoenix, Arizona. As for why I am
in Montana, I was running from you. You were getting to close and I had no other choice. So, I came here with the girls you missed during your raid.”

Veera just looks at Tizzy with contempt on his face.

“Well you should had done your homework about my cousin and gone somewhere else. Because you mess with any member of our family.
You mess with all of us.” Julia just kicks him and call Sphinx and Cadmus off him.

“I should just let Simba eat you, but I’ll need your testimony to arrest Boris Kuznetsov.”

“I’m not going to testify against him. Are you crazy? He’ll have me killed before we even go to trial.”

“He’s right Tizzy. Once Boris finds out that he is going to testify against him. He’s going to either try to leave the country or send some hitmen
to kill him. I know we can protect him on the ranch, but I don’t think dad will like that much. Especially with the twins around.”

“I could take him back to Hawaii and use one of mom’s safe houses till he has to appear in court.”

“That could work. Still, we need to arrest Boris first.”

“Let’s get him secure in the jail at my station and then we can go after Boris.”

“Alright. I’ll call my Commander and let him know.”

“You have the easy job. I have to explain why to my Captain what is going on.” Julia wasn’t looking forward to calling her Captain.

“That’s why I like working for myself. I only answer to dad if things go south.” Gina had a Cheshire grin on her face.

While Julia and Tizzy were talking to their people, she goes and handcuff their other prisoners. She was going to wait till the paramedics and the other police cars arrived before letting the women out of the room. She does call her company and have two armor transports sent to transport the women and call a motel near her sister’s police precinct and reserve fifty rooms or more for the women and the guards from her company to protect them.

Their father shows up along with the chief of police, several police cars and several Montana State Troopers show up along with medical personal. While they are helping the women and teenage girls, they come across three transgender girls that had been kidnapped or forced into sexual slavery. One was a cute Mexican girl, another was a transgender girl from Russia that had been kidnapped and brought to the states and the last one was an Indian girl that had been sold by her parents.

They were scared and frightened with what was going on around them. When people started or tried to get close to the three girls, Sphinx, Cadmus and Simba wouldn’t let anyone get near them.

“I think we might have a problem.” Julia had been watching the three girls and how their animals were keeping people away from them.

“No, I think they are going to become your responsibilities girls. Sphinx and Cadmus did the same thing when I brought you girls home. They wouldn’t let anyone near you unless it was me.”

“Dad, we're to young to be mothers.”

“I know Gina. I’ll adopt them and they will become your sisters. Cheshire might want you to have a younger sister too, Tizzy.”

“That’s fine with me. I don’t mind a little sister.”

Jack just looks at the three girls and knew his wife wouldn’t mind having two more girls around the house. He suspected that the Indian girl
would be adopted by Cheshire. She liked India and always helped the girls there as much as she could.

The three transgender girls end up riding with Jack back to the ranch, while the rest were transported to the hotel Gina had set-up for them
after they were taken to the hospital and given an examination. Julia and Tizzy were chewed out and read the riot act by Julia’s Captain. Tizzy’s Commander had chewed her out as well and told her they were working with the Boulder police department now on this case. They were going to work with the Phoenix police department to arrest Boris Kuznetsov. As for the witness, Jack offered up a place he had that Veera would be safe at and people from his company would protect him, so they had the resources to take this Boris guy down.

Gina had been offered a chance to go with the task Force to Phoenix, but she was going to stay behind and protect the women they freed and make any arrangements they needed. Their father had okayed it.

Cheshire shows up the next day before Tizzy and Julia leave to head towards Phoenix.

They had to leave Simba behind by orders from Julia’s Captain.

Cheshire wishes them luck and told them with a serious face that if they need help to call. Her and Jack would come down to help.

Julia comes walking out of the convince store they had stopped at to get fuel and take a bathroom break.

“We should had taken the Lear, instead of driving all the way to Phoenix.” She had a few snacks for her and Tizzy to snack on. She bought some slim jim’s for Sphinx, since they were his favorite.

“Your department wouldn’t reimburse you for the fuel cost. Plus, you’re representing your department like I am.” Tizzy watches the pump as it pumps gas into the SUV.

“I still don’t care. This is a sixteen-hour drive. We won’t get to Phoenix till midnight. We’re lucky dad already called ahead and reserve a nice hotel for us.”

Julia knew her father had called ahead and reserve a nice hotel room for her and Tizzy. Jack had gotten them a room at the Royal Palms Resort and Spa. They drive the rest of the night and finally pull in at one in the morning at the hotel. Julia was tried, Tizzy was tired and Sphinx had to relieve himself on the local plant life. The night time auditor was about to give the girls a speech about no pets allowed when both Tizzy and Julia show their police badge and Julia showed Sphinx’s police badge.

They are given their room key and both girls make their way down to their room. Tizzy flops down on her bed and stare up at the ceiling.

“God, this bed feels wonderful.” She glances over towards Julia as she takes her gun out and tuck it under her pillow.

“Dad always liked staying at the best places.” She sits down on her bed and start taking her boots off.

Sphinx jumps up on the bed and lay behind her. He still slept with her at night.

“Does Sphinx still sleep with you?” Tizzy sits up and starts removing her boots as well.

“Yep, he still does.” Julia reaches back and scratches him on his favorite spot.

“I’m glad I have my bed back to myself. When Simba was a cub, it wasn’t too bad, but now he is bigger than Chaos.” Tizzy slides out of her
pants and panties. She was getting completely undress. She had a dark Hawaiian tan.

Julia glances at her cousin and noticed how tan she was. She didn’t even have any tan lines on her body.

“You know something, I hate you. You have a nice dark tan I would kill for.” Julia was getting undress as well. She already had her nightshirt
with Sphinx’s picture on it, laying on her bed.

“You need to spend more time in Hawaii cousin. You know mom said you could stay at our place in Honolulu. It’s right near the beach.”

Tizzy slips on her favorite nightgown. It was made of silk and given to her by her mother a few years ago. It was of an oriental design.

“I might take you up on the offer when I get married to Christmas. She hasn’t been to Hawaii before and its one of her favorite places.” Julia
slips her night shirt on and lays down in bed.

Tizzy lays down in her bed as well.

“What time are we meeting at the Phoenix police station with the taskforce?”

“Seven o’clock. We’re meeting a Captain Gavin Garcia. He’s supposed to be related to dad’s friend Don Juan. I only met him once when I was younger at his nieces wedding. I have some of her Cd’s and Mp 3 songs from Apple.”

“I remember mom talking about her. She’s a popular Spanish singer.”

“That’s her. Her husband is a former Texas Ranger. He manages the winery they live at and acts as her body guard when she is on tour.”

Julia yawns and snuggles close to Sphinx as she falls asleep.

Tizzy snuggles deeper under the blanket and let sleep claim her like it did her cousin. She had her gun under her pillow like Julia did.

Earlier in the Afternoon:
The MD-17 that Rebecca had sent to pick-up her sister and her bounty hunting party landed at a private airfield just outside of Phoenix. It was owned by a company she did business with and was large enough for her MD-17 to land and wait while her sister’s crew took care of business. August had reserved them rooms at a nice place called Royal Palms Resort and Spa. She reserved two rooms for the group. One was just for Paul and Kat and the other room was being shared by Luke, Alexa, Crystal and Brittney. Luke didn’t mind sharing a room with three women. Lev had come through with the information on where this guy was holding up at. The first place was a Russian restaurant owned by the Order of Ronova. It was one of their money laundrying business. The second place was a compound out past Phoenix in Morristown, Arizona off Us Hwy # 60. That was their best place to find him.

Lev told them that he was pretty sure Boris had been tipped off that law enforcement was going to make a move on him. Which meant they didn’t have long to apprehend him. Paul had everyone check their gear and make sure they were going to be ready tomorrow morning to move out. Since Brittney was underage, Kat gave her the paint gun rifle and gun filled with the special paint balls they used when they are capturing people alive. She also double checked her body armor before they went to bed. If it turned into a gun fight, which Paul figures it might. She was to stay in the SUV for protection.

They spend the night going over what they could find out about the property from google maps. Afterwards they all turn in for the night.

Tizzy and Julia:
Tizzy’s alarm clock goes off at five thirty in the morning. She was still on Hawaiian time. She presses the snooze button and closes her eyes. Nine minutes later, her alarm goes off again. She turns it off and looks over at her cousin as she tries to wake-up. She notices that Julia didn’t want to get out of bed.

“Come on cousin. We got bad guys to catch.” She gets up and head into the bathroom to take a quick shower. This way her cousin can come in and take hers.

Julia really didn’t want to get out of bed. Gina was the early bird in the family. She gets up and slips her robe and slippers on and grabs Sphinx’s leash.

“Come on sphinx, let’s go and potty you while Tizzy is in the bathroom.”

Julia attaches Sphinx leash and takes him outside away from the hotel to do his business. She had her concealable gun in her robe. As she is walking him, she passes by two black SUV’s that had all their windows mirrored, except for the front windshield. Something about them had caught her interest. She couldn’t remember what it was, but she could had sworn she had seen them somewhere before. She looks at the license plate and notice they were from Tennessee. She pulls her cellphone out and takes a picture of the plates. She’ll run their plates when she gets back to her room.

Sphinx finally finds a spot where he could do his business. Once he was done, Julia pulls a plastic bag out of her robe pocket and scoop it up and tie it off to put in the trashcan.

“You know something Sphinx. I liked it better when pets could do their business and we weren’t required to clean it up. That’s what mother nature is for.”

Julia heads back towards her room, after dropping Sphinx’s waste off at the trashcan. By the time she walks into her hotel room. Tizzy was already blow drying her hair.

“Hey Tizzy, while I’m in the shower, can you run this plate number for me please?”

Julia hands her cellphone to Tizzy to look at the plate number she was talking about.

“Sure, no problem. Why are you running it?”

“Because I’ve seen those SUV’s before, but I can’t recall when or where.”

“Okay.”

Tizzy takes her laptop out and log onto the DMV database and inputs the license plate numbers. The search results show them belonging to a company called K&P Bounty Services based out of Knoxville, Tennessee.

“I wonder what a group of bounty hunters are doing here in Phoenix?” Tizzy thinks about it for a second and does a search on wanted
criminals and find Boris’s name and the five-million-dollar reward listed by the Department of State.

“Aw, fuck. This is going to make things harder.”

“What’s going to make things harder?”

Julia had taken a quick shower and came out with her hair wrapped up.

“Those plates you had me run. We’ll they belong to a Bounty Hunting company out of Knoxville, Tennessee. I bet they’re here to collect on the five-million-dollar bounty that Boris has on his head from the Department of State.”

“That’s where I remember at least one of the SUV’s from. They busted up a church sponsored gay conversion camp that had been abusing and raping the children and adults sent to it. I remember watching a news broadcast about it a few years ago before I became a police officer. Also, there’s nothing we can do to stop them from capturing Boris. If they want to get themselves kill, their welcome to try.”

“But won’t that interfere with us arresting him?”

“Nope, either way it will be a win, win scenario. If they capture him, they can deliver his sorry ass to collect the bounty on him. If we capture him, Sphinx can play with him before we turn him over. Either way the bastard is screwed. Me personally, I would like to take a page out of Dad’s playbook and send him on his way. People like him shouldn’t be allowed to live with all the harm he did to women and children.”

“Remember Julia, you wear a badge and pledged to uphold the law. We’re not our parents. We may have been trained to their standards, but we are not trouble shooters, assassins or vigilantes that take the law into our own hands. We’re police officers.”

“I know cousin, but sometimes I wonder if people like Boris should be allowed to live? He has harmed so many people, that arresting him doesn’t seem right.”

“I know what you mean cousin, but we have to play by the rules and only bend them some when we need to, to get the job done. Besides, if he tries anything, you can let Sphinx have fun with him. I bet once Sphinx gets done with him, he’ll wish he was dead.” Tizzy ruffles the fur on Sphinx’s head.”

“You’re right cousin. Maybe, I should take some time off and relax after this.”

“You’re welcome to fly back to Hawaii with me and enjoy the sunshine and weather.”

“I might do that.”

Both ladies finish dressing and head towards the police station to meet up with Captain Gavin Garcia and the task force.

Kat & Paul’s crew:
“Up and at'em Brittney.” Crystal smacks Brittney on her butt.

“Ow! That hurt.” Brittney was rubbing the spot Crystal had smacked her at.

Crystal had a little crush on Brittney, but tried to keep it under wraps. She didn’t want to lose her job by hitting on the bosses’ oldest daughter. Brittney was seventeen years old and still in High school. She remembered two years ago when Kat and Paul decided to take her on as an intern. They started her off in the office learning the paperwork and then started taking her out in the field with them on bounties. They taught her how to be a bounty hunter, were no one else would hire her. All because she had served some time for being in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Even though last night had been a wet dream for her to sleep next to Brittney, she behaved herself. She loved it when Brittney had snuggled up close to her and rested her head on her shoulder and her hand had rested on her breast while they slept.

“I’m taking first shower.” Crystal was heading towards the bathroom to take her shower.

“I’ll join you. This way Alexa and Luke can get into the shower faster.” Brittney heads into the bathroom and stops when Crystal looks at her.

“What? It’s not like were both not girls. I’ve taken a shower with my mother and Terry before.” Brittney starts striping out of her clothes and starts the water.

“Go on Crystal.” Alexa knew Crystal had a crush on Brittney. She gives her a wink.

Crystal just huffs and nervously went into the bathroom and joined Brittney in the shower. They take a shower together and as Crystal is washing Brittney’s back, she notices several scars on Brittney’s back.

“Where did you get these?” Crystal was fingering the scars.

“I got them at the conversion camp my sperm donor sent me to. It happened a month or so before Kat and Paul took me in.”

“I hope he got what was coming to him.”

Crystal finishes washing Brittney’s back.

“He did. Aunt Kristen sued the hell out of him and took him and my birth mother for everything they had for the harm they did to the people there.”

Brittney turns around to face Crystal. She had to look down a little, since Crystal was the same height as her mother. She was just a little taller
than Crystal.

“Look, I’ve talked to mom and dad about this. I have feelings for you and I know you have feelings for me. They know you are being cautious
because you don’t want to go back to jail with me being seventeen and you being twenty-two. Also, you’re afraid my parents will fire you if we start getting to know each other.”

“You’re right. I don’t want to lose my job or go to jail for dating a minor. I thought I was keeping this under wraps on how I felt about you.”

“You forget who my parents are. Mom could smell your pheromones increase whenever I was around and dad saw how you watched me and got close to me a few times. You can’t fool them. They said if we keep it quiet and respectable, they will allow the relationship and see where it goes from here. Besides, you talk in your sleep.”

Brittney gives Crystal a kiss and smack her ass.

“That’s for smacking my ass this morning.”

They finish showering and get out and dry off. This way Alexa could hop in next. They get dress with Paul still in the room with his head turned.
Brittney snatches the panties Crystal was going to wear out of her hands and shove her panties into her hands.

“I’m wearing yours.” She slips them own.

They were a pair of thongs that Crystal liked wearing.

Crystal just shakes her head and put the ones Brittney gave her on. They had little kittens on them. Everyone finally gets dress and met Paul and Kat down in the restaurant for breakfast before they left. Afterwards they had finish breakfast and piled up in the SUV’s. They head towards Boris’s resident.

Lev had texted them that a local delivery driver had found out that Boris was holding up in his place today. A police raid had been planned today by the Task Force that had been formed. The source came from someone inside the police department.

“Well, that’s going to make things difficult. If the police are heading this way or already here, we might not be able to apprehend him.”

“I doubt they are already there, mom. Uncle Lev said they were planning on being here. It takes a task force time to reactive. You taught me that.”

“True, you stay in the SUV Brittney. This might turn into a fire fight.”

“I sort of feel sorry for them mom. He has no idea who is coming after him.”

“Don’t get to cocky young lady. We’re dealing with a Russian special forces person here. He’s got the same training as your Uncle Lev.”

“I know mom, still if he is looking for a fight. He picked the wrong people to fight with.”

Kat had a slight smile on her face. She loved a good fight.

4502 W. Us Hwy # 60
When the task force shows up, they could see that a fire fight was already going on. One of the SUV’s Julia had spotted at the resort had smoke coming from the engine department. It looked like a rocket launcher had taken it out. The occupants of the bounty hunting party were pinned down. There were two young girls hiding behind the rear end of the second SUV for cover. They were using the wheels on the rear axle to hide behind and one of them looked to be injured. There was a woman with brown hair covering them and three others were using the other SUV as covered.

“Hold the SUV steady, Julia.”

Tizzy opens her door and tosses a few smoke grenades towards the house. As the smoke started to pour from the grenades. Julia and Tizzy pull their SUV up to the two girls.

“Get in!”

Brittney couldn’t believe that she got hit by shrapnel from the front of the SUV exploding. Their SUV had taken a direct hit from a Russian grenade launcher. If the SUV hadn’t been armored like it had been, they would had been killed. Alexa and Luke had Jumped cleared before the SUV had been hit and she was in the process of jumping when pieces of shrapnel embedded itself in her left legs.

Tizzy jumps out to help the injured girl in.

Julia spotted a guy on the roof pointing a rocket launcher at them. She leans out of her SUV and fires directly at him, hitting him squarely in the chest. He falls from the roof. They hear an explosion from the house and Sphinx jumps out of the SUV and run towards the front door.

He jumps up and over the person in front of him and attacks the person in front of the other person.

Kat had felt something from behind her jump over her as she ducks as she entered the house. A person had appeared in front of her and before she could even react. A huge ass dog tackled the person and takes the person down.

“Did you send Sphinx towards the house?”

“No, he did it on his own accorded.” Julia was surprised by Sphinx’s actions. He had never done that before.

Kat spots Boris trying to run for it, as he was heading towards the back of the house. He is stopped by a right cross from Paul. Everyone is surround by the Phoenix police force, FBI and US Marshal service. Julia had managed to get inside. Behind everyone and finds Sphinx growling at the person he took down.

Julia looks down at Sphinx and the person “I wouldn’t move if I was you. Sphinx is still hungry and he likes fresh meat.”

Paul walks over and slaps his cuffs on Boris.

“He’s our bounty. If you want him. You’ll give us the five million dollars reward for him.”

“Wrong son, you going to turn him over to us and forget about the bounty.” The guy that was talking was an older guy wearing a black suit and shades. He looked to be an FBI agent.

“I don’t think so, old man. He’s our bounty.” Kat was looking at him.

He points his gun at Paul and Boris. Kat points her gun at him as other agents point their guns towards Paul and Kat. The Phoenix police didn’t know what to do.

Julia taps her gun against the FBI agent temple that was causing the problem.

“I suggest you stop aiming your gun at these people, before I’m forced to take a page out of my father’s book and let my wolf have you for lunch.”

“Who the fuck, are you?”

“Sgt. Julia Bounty with the Boulder Police department from Montana. The woman behind you with her gun pointed at your head is my cousin Tizzy Patel with Honolulu police. We’re the reason you clowns know about this asshole. Now, I suggest you and all your men in black put your guns away and let the Bounty Hunters have their bounty.”

One of the Us Marshals watching the showdown heard the name Bounty. He looks towards the young woman.

“Did you say your last name is Bounty?”

“Sure, is.”

“So, you’re the one responsible for taking down DEA agent Curtis Drew.”

“Yep, I’m the one responsible.”

That was a name Julia wishes she could forget. He came after her and Sphinx when she first joined the Boulder police department. One of her former police officers at her station was feeding him information about her.

Edward heard the rumors about this young lady and knew she didn’t play around.

“I would do as she says agent Jones. She’s already killed one rogue government agent and I don’t think you want to see what she’ll do to you.”

Agent Jones lowers his weapon.

“Alright people, let’s stop this shit and take this outside.” Captain Gavin Garcia of the Phoenix Police force couldn’t understand why they were doing this crap.

The way he saw it.The bounty hunters capture their person, so therefore they were entitled to the reward for him.

“I’ll make sure you get your reward.” Marshal Edward Bullock walks forward and extends his hand to Paul and Kat.

“You don’t.”

Marshal Edwards turns around and gives Agent Jones a look that said in unspoken words. I will kill you if you keep talking.

Julia saw the look and it reminded her of her father’s look.

“If I was you agent Jones. I would shut-up and do as he says.” She smiles as she heads outside with Tizzy by her side and followed by Sphinx.

By the time the sun goes down. Arrangements had been made for Paul and Kat to get their reward for the capture of Boris. Captain Garcia only chews Julia and Tizzy out a little bit, but other than that puts in a good word for them with their superiors.

Brittney is taken to the hospital with Crystal and her parents by her side to have the shrapnel removed from her left leg. Kat plans with Rebecca at the hospital to have the damage SUV taken to her shop in Kansas to be fixed.

Tizzy and Julia head back to the resort to start their report and check out in the morning.

Tizzy and Julia had left early in the morning to head back home. The whole mess with Boris had been taken care of and all Julia wanted to do now was get home and away from FBI Agent Jones.

“So, what happened between you and DEA Agent Curtis Drew? I don’t think you ever shared that with me or mom before.”

“I really don’t like talking about it and dad thought it might be better if I kept that secret, but since that Marshal brought it up. I might as well tell you.”

Julia takes a deep breath before she began.

“It first started back during my time at the police academy. You know how gun ho and excited I was that I got accepted for the academy.”

“Yea, I remembered. Uncle Jack was so happy and proud of you. We all knew that was what you wanted to do since you were sixteen years old.”

“Yea, I really wanted to be a cop and help people like dad helped me and Gina. I wanted to make a difference and give back to the area we grew-up at. Anyway, when I joined the police academy. There was this recruit named Joseph Henderson that thought he was hot stuff. How he ever got accepted to the academy I have no idea, but he took an instant dislike to me. I found out later that the reason I had gotten accepted, was because of dad’s first wife. Her Uncle was one of the people in charge of selecting and evaluating cadets. He saw my last name and knew dad, so that was how I got it. Even if he hadn’t approved me, the rest of the selection committee was impress with my evaluation that I would had been selected anyway.”

“Wow, so you had inside help and didn’t know about it?” Tizzy was impressed.

“Yea, dad’s first wife came from a long line of police officers and her parents, uncles and aunts love dad as if he was their own. They kept in touch because of mom. So, when my application for entry came across his desk, he approved me after looking at the test we were given.”

“So, why did this Henderson person dislike you so much?” Tizzy was curious.

“Well, while we were in the academy I was setting new times and procedures. Because of dad’s and Uncle Alex’s training. I was beating him in everything we did. Here I was, a five-foot three-inch woman beating a six-foot three-inch guy with huge muscles from years of playing football. I beat him in hand-to-hand, at the firing range and the knowledge stuff we had to learned. He didn’t like it. So, he started spreading rumor about me screwing my instructors. My instructors and fellow cadets knew the truth, so that rumor got suppressed. He should had gotten expelled from the academy because of that, but someone high up wouldn’t allow it.”

“It sounds like he had higher connections then you did.”

“He did. His father knew the chief of police. Anyway, normally when you’re a rookie just out of the academy, you’re put on a year probation. Sphinx and I were put on full time after four months. They needed an extra K-9 officer and I impressed my training officer so much, he recommended me for full time. He said that I was the first rookie that he has ever done that for. So, when I went full time. Sphinx and I started making a name for ourselves out on the streets. We were being called all the time to chase criminals or search cars for drugs. The people that Sphinx chased down learned you can’t outrun a wolf like him. Drug dealers and addicts were learning that Sphinx couldn’t be fool because of dad’s training.
When we got called to search suspects vehicles for human smuggling or drug transport. I knew places that cops didn’t normally check, but I did and we busted several huge loads of drugs coming into the states or being transported through Montana. My fellow officers asked how I knew about those locations, I told them my father told me about them.”

“You didn’t tell them that your father is a government assassin, did you?”

“I’m not that stupid. Besides, a lot of the officers I know like my father. They were friends with his wife. All they know about him is that he is or was a government agent. Dad’s first wife never told her friends what dad did for a living, just that he was a government agent.”

“So, you and Sphinx were making a name for yourself on the streets. So, how does this Henderson person play into this?”

“Well, because me and Sphinx were making a name for ourselves on the streets and interfering with the drug trade. A hit had been put out on us. I answered a call on my way home about suspicious activity at a warehouse and walked into an ambush that had been set-up for me and Sphinx. There were four hitters from a new gang that had come to Boulder thinking they could make a name for themselves by taking me and Sphinx out. I killed three of their hitters and Sphinx took the last guy down. I found a picture of me and Sphinx on him and asked who sent him to kill me. He didn’t want to talk to me at first, so I let Sphinx play with him some.”

“Oh, I bet that went over well with his attorney.”

“Yea, they said I used excessive force by letting Sphinx use him as a chew toy.” A smile appears on Julia’s face.

“Anyway, he gave me the name of his leader and I paid him a visit to find out who hired them. At first, they weren’t going to say anything like usual, until Sphinx got hungry. When I told them, I would shoot everyone in his gang. He said I wouldn't because I was a cop. I told their leader that I might be a cop, but I was the daughter of the deadliest assassin around and if I didn’t, he would. That was a can of trouble that he didn’t want to deal with. He didn’t believe me, so I dropped the name dad is known as in South America. One of his men had heard the name and the rumors about dad and Chaos before. He told his leader that he didn’t want that type of trouble coming down on him. Especially the demon dog that traveled with dad.”

Julia’s smile got bigger when she remembered the expression on their faces at the mention of Chaos.

“Oh, I bet that changed their leader’s mind right away. I’ve dropped mom’s name a few times to get information from people. Between Uncle Jack and mom, most bad guys who have met them or have heard about them. Don’t want to have a visit from them. Mom warned me that I need to be careful dropping her name, because someone might want to kill me to even the scores with her.”

“Yea, dad said the same thing to me. He told me I need to be careful dropping his name, especially around anyone associated with the cartels. As for all the other different criminal organizations. They know what dad’s family will do against them. He said that your mother has a few mafia families that owe her for saving them and making her a member of the family.”

“Yep, mom said the same thing. Also, she is welcome among the gypsies because she saved the life of several of them. There is one gypsy family that has claimed her as their own. She risked life and limb for their leader when his wife and daughter had been kidnapped by a rival family. she’s the godmother of the daughter. I met her once, when we went to Europe on vacation. Mom took me to meet the clan and they accepted me as a member.”

“So, what happened after you told them what your father and Chaos would do to them?”

“They gave me a picture of the person who had put the hit out on me. It took me a while to track him down. I had to use some of dad’s contacts to locate the person. What I didn’t know at the time, was Officer Henderson was informing him of my progress. Henderson had gotten some of his childhood friends that were bullies in their school to jump me. One of them had shot Sphinx with a powerful tranquilizer and knocked him out.They figured since there was six of them, they should be able to overpower me. Boy, were they wrong. Don’t get me wrong, some of them did manage to get in some good hits, but I ended up putting all six of them in the hospital with serious injuries. Henderson thought he would try killing me with his hunting knife. So, I ended up in a knife fight with him. I had to admit he was pretty good and I still have the scars he gave me to prove it. What he didn’t count on was the training dad gave me when facing a person with a knife. I ended up taking his knife away from him and shoving it up under his chin and into his head. I had to call dad to come and get me, because Henderson had sabotaged my SUV and shot my radio. Plus, I wasn’t in any condition to drive either.”

“Oh, I wouldn’t had wanted to be there when your father showed up and saw you all bloody and hurt.”

“Oh, trust me. If anyone was still able to move, dad would had killed them with his bare hands. He went to that place he goes to when he is ready to kill someone. I’ve only seen that look on his face three times since he rescued me and Gina. He took me to the hospital and posted guards outside my room. He took Sphinx back to the house and made him comfortable. The tranquilizer that Henderson friend had shot Sphinx with would had killed an ordinary wolf or dog. However, because dad had breed Chaos’s sire with several different types of wolves. He survived the tranquilizer given to him. If it had been a little bit more powerful, I would have lost Sphinx.”

“Dam! What did Henderson shoot him with?”

“I don’t know. Dad wouldn’t tell me. All he did say, was that Sphinx was lucky he had survived it. He was also proud of me and told me my injuries weren’t to life threatening. However, when I was healed he was going to increase my training, so I didn’t end up in the hospital again.”

“Yea, mom did that to me after I went to the hospital the first time. Someone tried to run me off the road on the way home. I managed to keep from being driven off the road. So, they followed me and managed to shoot my front tire out and caused me to flip. As they were coming towards me with their guns drawn. I barely managed to get my gun and shoot them. I dislocated my shoulder from being flipped upside down. When I was healed, mom took me to a place in California that teaches stunt driving and made me take a course. So, next time I’ll be the one flipping people.”

“Did you have fun?”

“You bet. I had so much fun during the course. My instructor had been in several movies performing stunts and taught some famous actors as well.”

“I had knife fighting lessons with my father and more hand-to-hand training with him. The injuries I had gotten from the fight with Henderson and his crew were nothing, compared to what dad gave me during the training.”

Tizzy spots something in her passenger side view mirror.

“Do you know we have picked up a tail?”

“Yea, I spotted them a few miles back. It looks like it is our friends from the FBI.”

Julia pulls off to the side of the road and waits for them to pull up behind them.

Julia was keeping watch of the car as it got closer to them.

Tizzy notices they had increase speed as they got closer.

“Is it me or did they increase their speed?”

Julia had noticed it as well. They were increasing speed towards them. She had thought she noticed one of the guys pulling the bolt back on a sub-machine gun.

“Hold on.” Julia steps on the gas and her SUV shoots forward.

She knew she wasn’t going to outrun them from a dead stop, but she could make them slow down some. Tizzy was watching them through the back window of the SUV.

“Do you have any weapons in here besides our service weapons?”

“Yea, under the backseat. Dad, installed a secret compartment in my SUV. This SUV wasn’t given to me by the department. It’s one dad gave me after he did some things to it.”

“Oh, I can only imagine what Uncle Jack did to this SUV. Mom did the same thing to my Mustang convertible.” Tizzy was unlocking the hidden compartment under the backseat.

“Wow, Uncle Jack loaded you up with weapons. There’s two FN SCAR assault rifles with full combat load outs. Several grenades and your father’s custom-made ones.”

“That’s only one compartment. Dad said there were three others hidden in this SUV.”

“Well right now, we only need the assault rifle. Open your sunroof.”

Tizzy grabs the assault rifle and unbuckles herself to stand up in the back to fire from the sunroof.

“Remember, we need them alive Tizzy. Sphinx is going to want his share of them as well.”

She looks in the rear-view mirror towards Sphinx. He was laying down in the back-cargo area.

“I promise to only shoot their car out.”

Tizzy feels as their SUV gets slammed on the driver side. She hears the back window get riddle with bullets and is surprised they didn’t get
through.

“Bulletproof?”

“Yep, dad said it could stop up to .30-06 hunting rifle bullet.” Julia slams the car next to her.

Tizzy takes aimed at the tires and shoots them out.

“Go ahead and force them off the road.”

“Alright.” Julia hits the back corner of the car and sends it into a spin and finally into a nearby telephone pole.” She gets out and whistles for
Sphinx as he climbs into the backseat and out the opened door.

Tizzy plays lookout from the where she was standing through the sunroof.

The guys were dazed and confused when one notices an angry wolf growling at him and the other had a pistol pointed at his head.

A smile comes to Julia’s face “hello boys. I wouldn’t try anything or my wolf is going to have you for lunch. Now. You come out of the car first.”

Julia was motion for the driver to get out of the car.

The driver moves slowly and climbs out of the car and stands before Julia.

“Now, turn around and put your hands on the roof of the car.”

The guy does what she says.

“Tizzy, do you have me covered?”

“You bet cousin.” Tizzy had the guys head in her sights and if he tried anything, pop goes the weasel.

Julia swing his arms behind his back and zip cuff him. She helps him to the ground and removes his shoulder gun.

“Alright passenger, I’m calling my wolf off and I want you to get out of the car and put your hands on top of the roof. You try anything and my
wolf will have your balls for dinner.”

“Sphinx, ar ais!”

Sphinx backs off and lets the second person get out of the car and do what he was told as well.

Julia walks around and zip cuffs him as well.

“Let’s see who you really are.” Julia pulls her portable fingerprint scanner out and scans his print.

Tizzy was paying attention to the area around her, making sure they didn’t get jumped. They were out in the middle of nowhere with nó
buildings nearby.

Her finger print scanner beeps “Holy crap Tizzy. This one is wanted in several states for murder and kidnapping.”

“He’s been a very bad boy.” Tizzy had a smile ón her face.

Julia walks around to the driver and scans his fingerprints. After a few minutes it beeps. She looks at the information.

“This one is wanted for several counts of rape and several counts involving having sex with a minor. He escaped custody a month ago and is ón the wanted list. He is also wanted for drug trafficking.”

Julia looks at the guy she just scanned, his name was Harvey Collins.

“Well Mr. Collins, do you want to confirm or denied that Agent Jones sent you after us?”

Julia had a smile “remember, I have a wolf and he is very hungry and if he doesn’t scare you. Then, you get to see me cut your penis off. I hate
rapist.”

Julia pulls her Bowie knife that use to belong to Jim Bowie himself.

“This knife use to belong to Jim Bowie himself. You know him, don’t you? The marker of the first Bowie knife? Well, this is his blade. One of his relatives lost in it a poker game with someone ón my father side of the family. Normally, the blade is passed down to the first born male, but my father gave it to mé. It’s as sharp as it was when Jim Bowie made it.” She pulls a strand of her hair demonstrate it.

“Don’t tell the bitch anything Harvey or you’ll be a dead man.”

Tizzy starts laughing at that statement.

“You dumbasses have nó idea who the fuck we are, do you?” Tizzy looks at the one that told Harvey not to say anything.

“You’re just two dumb cunts that should be barefoot and pregnant.” The guy could see Tizzy and was glaring at her.

“Did he just call us two dumb cunts?” Julia looks towards her cousin.

“I believe he did cousin.” Tizzy was smirking. This guy was digging himself a hole.

“You know something Harvey, today is your lucky day. I’m going to go and have fun with your friend, instead.” Julia walks around the damage car and decks the other guy squarely in the face.

“Now, now cousin. We need to make this even. It’s unfair striking a bound man.”

“You’re right cousin.” Let’s give him a chance to live and escape.

“If you can beat me in a hand-to-hand fight. You can run off and I won’t give chase. However, if I win. You will tell me everything I want to
know.”

“Deal”

Tizzy just shakes her head at him “dumb move.”

“Come ón Dean, show this stupid cunt that she should be barefoot and pregnant.” Julia was taunting him, so he’ll get mad and make a
mistake.

Dean throws the first punch and Julia knocks it aside easily. He follows up with another one.

Julia knocks that one aside as well.

“Oh, come ón Dean. My grandmother could beat you.” Julia knew her grandmother could take Dean down.

Dean stops pussy footing around and goes all out with Julia. He was going to show her he was better then her. He goes to strike her again and
can’t believe she grabbed his arm and had twisted behind his back like he was nothing. He felt her breath ón his ear as she leaned in to whisper to him.

“You were stupid in how you attacked. Let mé show you how its done.” She pushes him aside and then does a roundhouse to his mid-section, followed up by a punch to his jaw.

She was pulling her punch, because she still needed him to talk to her. She lays into him with punches to his kidneys and stomach. She was pulling her punches so she didn’t kill him. When Dean drops to his knees, she open hand slaps him.

“Now, that you have become my bitch, tell me why Jones wanted you to come after me and my cousin and who is Jones working for.”

Dean looks up at Julia and couldn’t believe he got his ass beaten by a female cop.

“Told you it was a stupid deal, but no you wouldn’t listen.” Tizzy was smirking at Dean.

“Because you and that Bounty Hunter interfered with his mission. He was suppose to apprehend Boris and take him back to Russia for failing.

Now, he has to kill all of you for screwing up his assignment. As who he is, I have nó idea. I just know him as Davis Jones. If he finds out we fell in our assignment, he’ll send more people after you. He can’t afford to let you live.”

“How do you get in touch with him?”

“I have a burner phone.” He digs it out of his pants pocket and hands it to her.

“If he knew who our parents were, he would back off now. Mom and Uncle Jack would hunt him down and kill him.”

“I’m thinking he needs to get a message from them. An up and personal message. This is up their alley.”

Julia radios the State Troopers to come and get Dean and Harvey.

“We better call US Marshal Edward Bullock and the people from K&P Bounty Services and warn them. Because if he put a hit on us, than he’s
going to try and kill them as well.”

The closest State Troopers arrive ten minutes after Julia radios for one. Tizzy had put the assault rifle away before they showed up. The two of
them didn’t want to be asked why they had special forces assault rifles.

It was midnight by the time Tizzy and Julia arrived back at the house. Chaos and Simba were sitting on the front porch when Julia parked her SUV next to her sister hummer’s.

“God, I am so glad to be home.” Julia was stretching her body to get the kinks out.

“Me too and it looks like the welcoming committee is awake and waiting for us.” Tizzy pointed to Chaos and Simba.

“Where’s Sher-Khan?” Tizzy knew her mother was here at the house.

“I don’t know.”

Julia was walking towards the house with Sphinx by her side, when he stops and looks back behind them. Julia notices Chaos stand up on the front porch and sniff the air. A low growl could be heard from him as he howls summoning the other wolves to him. Him and Simba jumps from the front porch and start running down the driveway. Cadmus, Manes, Terror, Mischief, come running out of the house and from around the house comes Sher-Khan. Sphinx follows the rest of the pack.

“Oh shit, we have intruders on the grounds.” Julia races inside the house to drop her bags and grab her personal assault rifle and her armor.
Just as her and Tizzy run inside the house. The house goes into lock down mode. The blast plate covers the front door and the windows armor plates popup from their hiding spots. The house switches over from external power supply to internal power supply.

Both Julia and Tizzy notices their parents and Gina getting dress in their combat gear. The television in the main room switches over to the security monitors around the property and the house. The sensors around the property were showing two six men hit squads approaching from two separate directions the first squad was approaching from the main driveway that lead directly towards the main house and the second squad was approaching from the forest service road that the rangers and game warden use to ambush illegal hunters.

The wolves and Ligers had split off towards each group. The Ligers were heading towards the group coming down the main driveway and the wolves were heading towards the group coming from the service road.

Jack glances towards Julia and Tizzy “hurry up and change girls. We have a small hit squad on the property.”

“We’re hurrying dad.” Julia was strapping on her body armor.

Tizzy was strapping on her personal body armor.

“What’s the plan dad?” Gina looks towards her father.

“You girls take the team coming down driveway. Me and your aunt are going to take the ones on the service road. Try not to kill them all if you
can. We need to find out who sent them here and why.” Jack was looking towards his angels.

They reminded him of the old television show Charlie’s Angels

“Alright dad.” Julia chambers a round in her assault rifle.

“You all better come back without any injuries.” Debbie had come downstairs after making sure the three girls they had staying with them and the twins were in the safe room with Selena.

She had put her body armor on and had her weapons as well.

“I’ll monitor you from the office.” Debbie gives her husband a kiss and hug each girl.

“Be careful out there.” Debbie heads into Jack’s office and bring the sensors online and sits down in his chair. She watches the monitor.

“You heard your mother and aunt girls. Let’s go and have fun.” Jack opens the hidden door behind the bookcase and head outside.

Jack and Cheshire heads towards the woods. They could already hear gunfire coming from the squad trying to protect themselves from the wolves. An evil smile appears on Jack’s face as he hears screams from some of the attackers.

Julia, Tizzy and Gina head down the drive way. They knew exactly where the other squad was from the screaming of at least two of them.
Debbie was feeding them their position from the hidden sensors along the driveway and the driveway itself. Jack had installed the new road material that acted like a solar collector and could be custom program with designs and collect solar energy.

First Hit Team (Forest service road):
Anatoly and his men had been given orders to kill the two women that had interfered with their mission. When they did a search on who owned the property, they found out it was owned by one Jack Bounty. When they ran his name, it had come back with a warning from Moscow to not approach. The order came from the Russian President himself.

When Anatoly told this to his commander, he was told to do it anyway or he would have him killed. Anatoly picked his best men to attack the place. Him and his men had made it to the property and then split up to attack from two sides. His information had included the fact that one of his targets was the oldest daughter of Mr. Bounty.

As him and his team were making their way down the service road. They were attack by a pack of wolves. He was attacked by the biggest wolf he had ever seen. He had barely managed to escape from it. He had taken his knife and stabbed the beast at his shoulder joint. He had to stabbed the beast several times, before it loosened its grip on his right arm. Blood was flowing freely down his arm.

He hears an angry growl and looks around from where the sound was coming from and spots a set of red eyes looking at him. He brings his left hand up to shoot the wolf as it jumps towards him and manages to hit him in the chest. The wolf however locks its jaws around his throat and tears it out before it dies.

Jack had spotted Chaos attacking one of the intruders and watched as his wolf was killed. Jack kept his calm as he walked forward to move his best friend off the shooter. He notices that Chaos had taken the guy with him. His jaws were locked around the guys throat. Jack pulls his gun and puts two rounds into his chest just to make sure the bastard was dead. He moves onto his next target and shots him in his leg.
Cheshire spotted her targets and instead of using her gun. She disables them herself by either breaking their legs or knocking them out.

Jack and Cheshire hear screams as several other targets are killed by the wolves. When they go to investigate the screams. They find Sphinx and Cadmus had taken one guy down each. Manes, Terror, Mischief had taken down guy of their own. The guy looked like he had been mauled by a lion.

“Where’s Chaos?” Cheshire was looking for Jack’s best friend.

“He’s dead. The guy he went after killed him, but not before he crashed his throat.”

“I’m sorry Jack. I know how much Chaos meant to you. Are you going to have him clone?” Cheshire had done that with Sher-Khan a few times.

“I might. Hopefully, Doctor Keaira O’Brien will be willing to do it.” Jack walks over towards Sphinx to check his leg. He had seen the wolf limping.

Jack pulls out his flashlight and check his legs. He discovers a gash on his left leg near his shoulder joint.

“You’re going to need stitches boy.” Jack does a quick patch job on Sphinx till he gets him back to the house.

Second Hit Team (Main Driveway):
Vladimir had gotten reports from team one that they were under attack from a group of wolves. Then he heard two members of his team firing their guns. Before he could ask them, what was attacking them, there was a loud roar followed by two screams. Vladimir felt himself getting sleepy and then passes out. Just before he passes out. He sees a figure standing in front of him.

Julia watches as her target passes out from being hit by her tranquilizer gun. She had seen Sher-Khan and Simba take down one person each. Tizzy had dropped her target and watches as Gina went hand-to-hand with her target.

Gina had decided that she wanted to have some fun. She wanted to use some of the skills her father taught her. She had managed to sneak
up on her target and disarmed him quickly and quietly.

Viktor couldn’t see what or who had appeared in front of him. The small petite woman had managed to disarm him quickly and was standing there in front of him smiling.

“Вы хотите играть?” A smile appears on Gina’s face.

“Ты мертв.” The guy swings at Gina after responding.

Gina blocks the attack and returns it with one of her own. Viktor blocks her knee meant for his groin. She strikes again and strikes Viktor’s jaw hard.

Viktor felt the pain from the punch to his jaw.

Gina catches his arm and twist behind his back and jerks up hard, popping his arm out of his shoulder socket. Kicks him behind his knee and drops him to the ground.

He tries to punch her, but misses as his arm is capture and twisted behind his back. His shoulder pops out of the socket when she jerks up hard on his arm. He drops to the ground from a strike to his leg from behind.

“You ready to surrender?” Gina jerks up hard on his arm.

“DA!” Viktor couldn’t believe a petite girl had beaten him.

Gina lets go and zip cuffs him. While she had been fighting Viktor the wolves and her father and aunt had capture the other hit team members. All of them were dragged to the barn and thrown into cells, while Jack went to go and retrieve Chaos body and brought him back to the clinic.
Jack takes the genetic samples he knew Dr. O’Brien was going to need to clone Chaos.

Julia patches Sphinx up under her father’s watchful eyes. He instructs her how to clean the wounds and how to put stitches in, to close the wound. Cheshire was instructing Tizzy in the same thing with Simba. One of the men Simba attacked, left a long gash across his right leg. Gina was cleaning the wolves up. They had blood all in their fur from attacking the men they took down. Even Cadmus had blood in his fur.

Debbie did a scan of the property to make sure there was no more intruders. The hit team had damaged the transformer that provided power to the house. So, they were still on internal power. Jack looks down at Chaos and was going to miss his best friend.

Afterwards, everyone takes the tunnel linking the main house to the barn. Gina and Julia help their dad bring the dead bodies to the barn for the cleaner to come and get them. Julia might be a cop, but there were some secrets she’ll take to her grave with her.

Cheshire and Tizzy go and locate the hit team’s vehicle. They bring them back to the house to investigate in the morning.

“Dad, Aunt Cheshire, you might want to let us to do the interrogation. I don’t think they could survive you guys if you go and interrogate them. Not with the state of mind you guys are in.” Julia was doing this in front of the prisoners they capture last night.

She wanted them to know that if her father or Aunt got to them, they wouldn’t be living afterwards.

“You have one chance to get them to talk or me and your aunt are going to do it.” Jack knew what his niece and girls were up too.

“Yes daddy.” Julia opens the cell that had one of the prisoners in it and stepped aside while her father steps inside to pick the guy up.

Jack steps inside the cell. He picks the guy up one handed and carry him by his neck to the interrogation room. He tosses the guy across the interrogation room till he hits the wall.

Julia tries to suppress a smile as she walks in and helps the guy up into the chair. She cuts his restraints and handcuff his hands to the middle of the table. She walks around to the other side and stands there looking at the guy.

“I need to apology for the treatment you received from my father. He’s a little upset about one of your men killing his wolf. I know you might tell me to go and F myself, but it’s in your best interest to talk to me. Because, if my father or Aunt come in here to speak with you. They won’t be very nice to you. If nothing else, you might not live if they come in here.” Julia knew what would happened if her father or aunt came in.

Gina and Tizzy were watching, because if Julia failed to get the guy to talk. Tizzy would be next to make him. Gina knew Tizzy would use her mother’s technique to make the guy talk and that wasn’t pretty.

Mitch looks at the young lady standing in front of him. She was one of the targets they had been sent to kill. He had read her dossier and knew she was a Montana K-9 police officer and had a wolf for a partner. The same wolf that had been stabbed by his boss. The big wolf that had attacked his boss was killed, but the big wolf got his revenge by tearing out his boss throat.

“What are you going to do to me if I don’t talk?” Mitch already felt that the older man that threw him into the room wanted to kill him.

“Well, you already heard what my father wants to do to you. Believe me, he knows techniques that would make most interrogator’s crap their pants. He has no problems peeling the skin from your body like a deer being skinned. If you think he’ll stop there, trust me he won’t. I’ve seen him keep a guy alive for days torturing him. He had a doctor come in and heal the damage he did and start again.” Julia takes her bowie knife out and examine it for nicks.

Mitch was looking at the bowie knife in the young girl’s hand. He was wondering if she was going to use it on him. He didn’t think she was the type that enjoyed doing torture.

“Now, here is my question. Who sent you to kill me and my family?” Julia looks directly at Mitch and the nice sweet demeanor she had was gone. In its place was her cop demeanor.

Mitch notices the switch of her demeanor immediately. He just smiles at her. He wasn’t afraid of a cop. He spits at her and smiles afterwards.

“You know, that was a very dumb thing to do.” Julia takes her bowie knife and slams it through the top of his hand and into the metal underneath his hand.

Mitch starts screaming. He notices a pissed off look on Julia’s face. He screams again when she pulls her bowie knife out of his hand.

Gina and Tizzy were smirking as they watched Julia.

“That guy screwed up spitting at Julia.” Tizzy couldn’t believe how stupid this guy was.

“It’s a good thing dad isn’t here to see that. He would be in there right now slamming that guy’s head into the table as hard as he can.” Gina knew what her father would do to the guy.

“I don’t think your father would go that far, Gina.” Cheshire had been watching Julia during her interrogation job. She knew Jack would had punched him so hard, that he would have a broken his jaw.

“What would dad do Aunt Cheshire?” Gina looks towards her aunt.

“Let’s just say, your father would had made it so the guy couldn’t talk any more. He’s been known to break people’s jaws with one punch.”
Cheshire had seen it happen more times then she wanted to admit.

“Let’s hope Julia can convince this guy to talk.” Gina was wondering if her sister would be able to do it.

“I have confidence in your sister’s ability to make this fellow talk. If he doesn’t talk, then we have more people to break and make them talk.” Cheshire looks towards her oldest daughter and smiles.

“Why do I get the feeling the next one is going to be for me?” Tizzy always got a bad feeling when her mother smiled at her.

“Because, he has already been brought to the other interrogation room for you to break. There’s one for you as well Gina. Now, go and show me and your Uncle what you can do.” Cheshire had two more prisoners brought to the other interrogation room.

“We’ll be watching you girls.” Cheshire just smiled at each girl as they went to their assigned interrogation room.

“So, who do you think will be able to break their person first?” Cheshire heard Jack walking up behind her.

“I think, Gina is going to be the person to break hers first.”

Jack was proud of his girls, but knew between Julia and Gina. Gina would break hers, before Julia or Tizzy would. In combat Julia and Tizzy were the better fighters. However, Gina was the better interrogator. She learned how to break people from Harry Legend. He was the commanding officer of Alpha team. Harry was the best interrogator Jack had ever meet or hired. He could give lessons to the CIA in breaking people.

The guy Julia had didn’t want to talk and she comes out covered in blood. She used every trick in the book, except using her father’s special drug. He told her to only use that as last resort. The drug turned the victims brain to mush.

Tizzy broke the jaw of the man she was interrogating after five punches. She was cleaning her hands off when she came out.

“Yours didn’t talk?” Julia was looking at Tizzy as she cleaned her hands.

Julia noticed Tizzy had blood on her clothes and some on her neck and face.

“I broke his jaw. I tried the easy stuff first, but he thought I was being too gentle with him. So, he learned why I am the daughter of the Cheshire.” Tizzy looks towards her mother.

Tizzy never regretted that day that Cheshire had stopped her from killing herself. She was proud to be Cheshire’s daughter. She wanted to be just like her mother, but Cheshire talked her out of it. So, she became a police officer instead.

Jack and Cheshire come walking out of the observation room that they had been watching Tizzy and Julia from.

“It’s alright girls. You did your best. I don’t think many people without military training could had withstood your interrogation.”

“But we failed you dad and Aunt Cheshire.” Julia was disappointed she couldn’t get her guy to talk.

“No, you didn’t Julia.”

Jack knew that Julia always tried to make him proud of her. She wanted to be like him, but he didn’t want that. He wanted her to be her, not him. So, he was proud when she became a police officer.

“They were sent to kill us because Julia and Tizzy interfered in their operation, Dad. The fake FBI agent that had been sent, didn’t like that Tizzy and Julia pointed their guns at him. He had been sent to retrieve their target and bring him back to Russia.” Gina cleans her hands with a fresh rag.

“You mean that fake FBI agent is still trying to kill us?” Julia looks towards her sister.

“Yep, he still wants you and Tizzy dead. They were supposed to call and tell him they had succeed in killing everyone here.”

“What happens if they don’t contact them?” Julia looks towards Gina.

“Don’t know. All he said, was that we were their target and another team had been sent to take care of the bounty hunters that had been there.”

“Then, I think you girls need to go and join the other group. You can help them take this guy down.” Jack was looking at all three girls.

“But Dad, we don’t know who he is or where he is hiding.” Julia had tried to find him, but nothing turned up.

“You girls aren’t the only one. Anika emailed me his picture as well.” Jack had received Anika’s email and looked through his files.

Marin Jones had used a special program to erase his existence from every computer database there was, but Jack kept a standalone computer and kept backup files on several portable drives. He had sent what he had to Anika to help who was looking for the guy.

“You found him, Dad?” All the girls look towards Jack.

“Yep, I found him and I know where you can start looking for him.” Jack went through his files and located the prick.

“Where is he daddy?” Julia wanted to pay this guy back.

“He is currently hiding out in Memphis, Tennessee and going by the name of Marin Jones. He’s using credentials that belong to a missing FBI agent. So, you girls are going to need to be careful.”

“Dad, me and Tizzy can’t go. We’re police officers and I have to be back to work in a few days.” Julia knew she only had a few days off from her precinct.

“The two of you have been reassigned to a special task force. You’re to report to US Marshal Edward Bullock.”

“Isn’t he the same US Marshal we ran into in Texas?” Julia was wondering why they were working with him.

“Yep, you’re working with him and his partner. Julia, you’ll have to take Terror with you. Sphinx’s injury is worse than I thought. He’s okay sweetie, but he’ll need to stay home and heal. Tizzy, Simba was injured as well and I think it might be better for you to take Menace with you and go without your Liger.” Jack was a little worried about Tizzy taking either of the Ligers with her.

“Will Menace listen to me? I know he is still young Uncle Jack.” Tizzy was worried about Menace doing what she said.

“He’ll listen. Just command him the same way you do Simba.”

“Alright, I’ll take Menace with me. If nothing else, Cadmus will keep him inline.” Tizzy looks over towards Gina.

Cadmus was the oldest wolf among all the new wolves.

“Don’t worry cousin, Cadmus will make sure they behave themselves.” Gina rubs Cadmus head. She never goes anywhere without her best friend and protector.

“Alright, go and pack a bag for a week’s stay. You can use the safe house we own in Memphis. There should already be an armor SUV and a sports car there for you to use. You girls can take the Lear to Memphis.”

“Thanks daddy.” Julia heads back to the house with Tizzy and Gina to pack.

The flight back to Montana wasn’t fun for Gina. She was going to have to wear a back brace for a while. She had taken a pain pill before they had gotten on the Lear Jet and Arnold was by her side. Her cousin Tizzy was in the same shape she was in. She had smacked her back up against a steel door and had bruises going down her back. Her sister’s chest was wrapped up because she had a few fractured ribs. Even though she loved Arnold, she wanted to be held by her father. He was her rock and felt safe in his arms.

When the Lear Jet lands at the property. Gina, Julia and Tizzy were happy to be home. The Hummers were still parked at the hangar. The girls knew their mother and the animals were waiting for them up at the house.

“Cheshire, go ahead and take everyone up to the house. I’m going to secure the plane.” Jack was going to secure the jet and button up the hangar.

“Alright Jack.” Cheshire takes one of the hummers up to the house.

When everyone got close to the house, they could see Debbie standing on the first porch with their sisters and Tizzy’s little sister. Sphinx and
Cadmus were standing with Debbie. Cadmus was still wrapped up from his operation.

When the car stops, and the door opens. Gina runs over towards Cadmus with tears sliding down her cheek. She’s been worried sick about her wolf. She carefully wraps her arms around him and bury her face in his fur.

“Where are the Ligers?” Arnold didn’t see Simba or Khan.

“They are inside the house. They don’t like the cold air here.” Cheshire knew Khan didn’t.

Debbie watches her daughter as she cried against her wolf. Debbie knew the bound between Gina and Cadmus was like the same bound Jack had with Chaos. Julia hugs her wolf. She was so happy to see Sphinx again. Julia looks up at her father.

“Where are Terror and Menace?” Julia was concern about them.

“They are inside the house sis.” Alyona was comfortable calling Julia and Gina sis or sister. They had been the ones to rescue them from the sex traffickers along with Tizzy.

“Why don’t all of us head inside as well.” Debbie wanted to get her family inside the house. She knew Selina had hot chocolate made for everyone.

Arnold had looked at Gina when Alyona had called Julia sis. He knew it was just Tizzy and Julia. He saw Cheshire wrap her arm around the Indian looking girl.

They walk into the house and the rest of the animals were waiting for them. Arnold stops when he sees two big cats and the rest of the wolves.
He knew Jack had Chaos, Sphinx and Cadmus. He was looking for Chaos. He knew that big wolf was always around the house.

“Where’s Chaos?” Arnold stayed by Gina’s side with Cadmus limping next to her.

“He passed away defending the property.” Gina still had tears sliding down her cheeks. She loved Chaos as well.

“I’m sorry to hear that.” He follows everyone into the living room.

The Christmas tree was already up, and the room had been decorated for Christmas.

“Silvia, Alyona can you help Selina, please?” Debbie looks at her adopted daughters.

“Yes ma’am.” Both girls follow Selina into the kitchen and help her bring out the hot chocolate and Christmas cookies they had baked the other day.

Alyona and Silvia were adapting to having people they could trust around them. They had been scared when they came to live with Mr. and Mrs. Bounty, but after they learned that Gina and Julie had once been in their place. They started trusting everyone and Mischief, the other wolf that had been at the house. Silvia liked Mischief and played with him. Alyona still felt uncomfortable around all the animals. She felt Sphinx rub up against her. She looks down and see the wolf that had helped rescue her. He had stayed by her side while he was healing and while Julia was gone.

The girls follow Selina into the living room and help serve everyone. Christmas saw the new girls and wonder who they were. She leans close to Julia and ask her.

“Who are the new girls?” She looks at the young girls as they follow Selina out of the dining room.

“That’s Alyona, Silvia our new sisters and Tizzy’s new little sister Krisha. We rescued them a few weeks ago from a bunch of sex traffickers.

They were being pimped out by the traffickers. They had been sold by their parents to the sex traffickers. Alyona is from Russia, Silvia is from Mexico and Tizzy’s little sister is from India.” Julia gives Christmas a kiss.

“Why would any parent sell their child into sex slavery, I’ll never understand.” Christmas couldn’t understand why anyone would do that.

“I don’t know either. I agree with my father that parents. Whoever, does that need to be sterilized so that they can never have children again.” Julia watches her new sisters and accepts some cookies from the tray Alyona was serving everyone from.

“How are you doing Alyona?” Julia looks at her younger sister?

“I’m doing okay sis. Silvia has been having nightmares and so has Krisha.” Alyona’s ordeal wasn’t as bad as the other two girls were.

“Well, I want you to know, me and Gina have been where you girls have been. Daddy, Selina and mom will protect you and help you. So, will Uncle Robert, Uncle Alexa, me and Gina as well.” Julia carefully gives Alyona a hug.

“Thanks sis.” She had tears sliding down her cheek.

“You’re welcome.” Julia takes her napkin and wipe the tears away.

Julia slips Sphinx a cookie and pet him. As she watches her younger sister walk away.

“You know, you could had said me too.” Christmas looks at Julia. She remembers the first time they met and found out that she had a Wolf.

“I know sweet heart. I’ve been thinking, that maybe me and you should get married after Christmas. There’s not much I don’t know about you and I know there’s not much you don’t know about me.” Julia felt strongly about this.

“Does this have something to do with what happened to you on this last case?” Christmas didn’t want to just jump into marrying Julia and later learn it was a mistake.

“I’ll be lying if I didn’t say it had something to do with my decision on asking you to marry me. However, that’s not why I am asking you to marry me now. I really am in love with you and I don’t want to lose you, or you lose me without us making it official. I’ve always loved you since we were in school together, but I didn’t think you felt the same about me.” Julia held Christmas hands.

Christmas stare into Julia’s eyes and saw what she was looking for. She leans forward and gives her a kiss.

“Let’s get some sleep and talk more about it in the morning sweetie.” Christmas helps Julia up to her bedroom and help undress her. She was about to leave to head back to her place.

“Stay with me, please?” Julia held onto her hand.

“Alright.” She gets undress and pull out her night gown from her overnight bag. She crawls into bed with Julia and just held her.

They felt Sphinx jump up on the bed and nested down by their feet.

Arnold helped Gina up to her bed and tucked her in. Jack had given him permission to stay in the same room with her and sleep. He knew
Cadmus wanted to be near his human. So, he carefully lifts the wolf up and put him next to Gina. He saw Gina wrap her arms around him and bury her face in his fur. He lays down next to her. He knows, even if they had a place of their own, she would always want her wolf in bed with them.

Jack was down in his office making sure things were okay at social services. He was making sure his other daughters paperwork had been completed and were official. He had a friend of his push through the paperwork. He also transferred the bounty for Jones into the bank account of K&P Bounty Services. He updates his status in his own records as being incarcerated at a black site jail, along with Arnold Bridges.

He paid for K&P Bounty Services hospital stay and had their medical records transferred to Bart’s wife’s office. She was listed as their primary Doctor. He already planned with her on this matter. He looks up when his wife comes walking into his office.

“What are you doing in here?” Debbie walks over and sits on his lap.

“Taking care of some paperwork. Is everyone in bed?”

“Yep, Arnold is sleeping with Gina and Christmas is sleeping with Julia., Alyona and Silvia are in their bedroom. Tizzy is sleeping with her
boyfriend and Cheshire has Krisha sleeping with her. Krisha hasn’t been doing well since Cheshire left. So, she has Krisha sleeping with her.” Debbie had let Krisha sleep with her, till Cheshire got back.

“I notice Arnold proposed to Gina.” She had seen the ring on her hand.

“He did it when she woke-up in the hospital. I don’t mind them sleeping together.” Jack knew Arnold loved Gina.

“You know, she’s upset about Cadmus. I saw it in her face.” Debbie knew out of all her girls. Gina was a lot like Jack when it came to the wolves.

“I know. I spoke with my cousin and I’m going to use what semen I have left of Chaos to breed his Greenland wolf to help increase their population. I’ll give her, Alyona and Silvia a pup from that litter to raise and train. Also, Dr. O’Brien has agreed to clone Chaos’s cells. So, I’ll have a few more pups of him to raise. I’m thinking about giving Julia one of the clone pups to raised and train for police work.” Jack had already agreed to pay the one million price tag to have Chaos cloned.

“Doesn’t she have Sphinx and weren’t you going to give her Terror to use for police work?” Debbie thought that was the plan.

“Yes, but Sphinx is getting to old for police work and she’ll be force to retire him. Terror will replace him. The pup she can raise and train to replace Terror.” Jack was also thinking about having a few female wolves on the property to protect Debbie and Selena.

“If you say so. How is that person that rescued our girls, doing?” Debbie knew about Christina, because Jack told her about what she did for their girls and the bounty hunting team.

“She’s being looked after by a friend of Cheshire’s. Nora Midnight is her name and she has taken her under her wing. She’s teaching her how to protect herself.” Jack thought that was a good idea, because of the situations Christina has gotten herself into lately.

“You’re not turning that girl into an agent of yours and Cheshire, are you?” Debbie didn’t like when he did that.

“No, we’re not. She’s to young first off and secondly, she has plans of her own, that we’ll help her with in appreciation for saving the girl’s life.”
Jack was going to make sure he could give Christina the opportunities she was looking for.

That was why she was under Midnight’s watchful eyes. Midnight had connections with people Jack normally didn’t associate with. Sure, he’ll invest in a movie or so, but that wasn’t his world. He’ll do what he could for Christina, just like Cheshire was going to do.

“I’ll believe it, when I see it. I know you too well Mr. Jack Bounty.” Debbie just gives her husband a kiss.

Jack returns the kiss and picks her up “then you know what I have in mind for you tonight then.” He holds her tight to his body.

He walks out of his office and carry her upstairs to their bedroom.

Julia wakes up before Christmas does and slides out of bed, without waking her. She looks at Christmas peaceful sleeping form, before slipping on her robe and heading downstairs towards the kitchen. Sphinx was following behind her as she steps into the kitchen. She selects her favorite coffee and put it in the new coffee machine. Selina had it installed a couple of weeks ago. She grabs a biscuit for Sphinx and toss it to him. She knew if chaos was alive, he would want one as well.

She glances up at the clock in the kitchen and notices that it was 6:00 a.m. she was surprised that Gina wasn’t up already. Next to Selina, Gina was the one you could count on most, to be the first one up. Julia looks at the temperature outside and saw it was 21f degrees outside and knew the Liger’s weren’t going to enjoy that today.

She just stands in front of one of the big bay windows sipping her coffee. It looked out towards the back of the property and swimming pool area. She feels Sphinx rub up against her leg as she stretches the top of his head with her fingernails. She was happy that his wounds weren’t as bad as she thought they would be. She felt sorry for Cadmus, because his wounds have basically taken him out of active service. The vets did what they could for him, but now he was going to be walking with a limp. It was going to be hard for him to do any jumping.

“You’re up early.” Selina comes walking into the kitchen and spotted Julia standing in front of the large bay window.

“I couldn’t sleep anymore.” She turns around to face Selina.

“Well, since your up. Why don’t you come over here and give me a hand making breakfast for everyone?” Selina grabs a spare apron and hand it to Julia.

Julia accepts it and start mixing the batter for the biscuits Selina was famous for. Julia always found that cooking always made her feel better when something was bothering her. An hour and half later, people start waking up and coming into the kitchen. They either grabbed a cup of coffee or grabbed some juice.

The secret door that lead to the tunnel that went to the barn opens. Jack comes stepping out of it followed by Debbie. Both were bundled up in their cold weather gear.

“Mmmm, do I smell fresh biscuits and country sausage gravy?” Jack looks over towards Selina and Julia.

“Yes sir.” Julia was just finishing up the grits and scramble eggs.

Debbie strips out of her cold weather gear and hangs it up in the closet in the kitchen. She’ll move it later. She picks up one of the platters and take it into the dining room and set it down on the table. Jack follows behind her with another platter. The wolves are feed outside on the back porch, except for Cadmus. He was feed inside down in the laundry room.

Cheshire appears a few minutes later from the secret corridor that lead to the barn wearing her cold weather gear. She peels herself out of it and hang it up. She just got finish feeding the Ligers out in the barn, where it was nice and warm. They were in a separate area that Jack had built for them, whenever they came to visit.

Tizzy comes walking into the dining room with her boyfriend Ikaika helping her. She was wearing a back brace just like Gina. Ikaika helps her over towards a seat where Cheshire normally sat.

Krisha, Alyona and Silvia all come walking in rubbing their eyes. They were wearing their robes over their nightgown and matching slippers.
Krisha’s robe had kittens chasing after a ball of yarn on it. Alyona had Eagles flying on her robe and Silvia had puppies on hers.

Christmas comes walking into the kitchen and notices Julia flipping sausages patties on the griddle. She walks behind her and wrap her arms around Julia’s waist.

“This is a side of you I have never seen before. I never knew you were so domesticated.” She places a kiss on Julia’s cheek.

“It helps me relax and I enjoy cooking. At one time I thought about opening a restaurant.” Julia squeezes Christmas’s hand.
Christmas releases Julia and picks up the platter that Julia has been filling up with sausage patties.

“Thanks sweetie.” Julia places a kiss on Christmas cheek.

“You’re welcome.” Christmas carries the platter out to the dining room.

Julia, Selina and Debbie join the rest of their family and sit down and enjoy breakfast with them.

Jack and Debbie look at everyone gathered around the table, while the twins eat their breakfast by their mother and father side. Jack could never imagine how big his family would had gotten. He looks at Debbie and realize how much like April his first wife she resembles. True,
Debbie was April’s older sister, but he never realized till now, how much they resembled each other.

“Now you know why I like living in Hawaii, Jack.” Cheshire hated cold weather.

She didn’t like it when she was stationed in Russia during her first year with the CIA. She loved the warm weather and living in places like
Florida, California, and the Bahamas. Why Jack choose to live in Montana, she’ll never figure out.

Jack just gives her a smile. He didn’t mind living here in Montana. First, it would be the last place someone looking for him or his family would look, two, he had property out here that use to belong to his father. Three, he could raise his wolves without anyone complaining about them. Fourth, he was raising cattle and Bison. He had a large parcel of land for his herd to roam.

After everyone eats their breakfast. Alyona, Krisha and Silvia help clear the dining room table and put away the left overs. Tizzy and Gina heads towards the library with their boyfriends. Christmas and Julia let the wolves back inside the house. Jack, Debbie and Cheshire heads towards Jack’s home office to talk. Julia goes upstairs to her bedroom and changes into her exercise outfit and have Alyona, Krisha and Silvia change into theirs, along with Christmas. They all meet later downstairs in the underground gym. Julia puts the girls and Christmas through the same exercise routine her father uses to put Gina and her through when they felt comfortable around him. The gym was equipped with all sorts of exercise equipment and acrobatic equipment.

“Why don’t I teach you girls some ballet?” Christmas looks at the three new girls.

Christmas takes over teaching Alyona, Krisha and Silvia ballet. She teaches them how to stand and what the different positions were and how to stretch.

Julia stands back and watches her girlfriend. She forgot that Christmas took ballet when they went to school. She joins in after a while of watching and does what her girlfriend says. She could tell Christmas attitude changed when she teaches them. This was something she had never seen before about her girlfriend.

Jack’s Home Office:
Jack sits in his chair behind the desk as Debbie and Cheshire sit in the high back leather chairs in front of his desk.

“How is Christina adopting to living with Nora?” Jack looks towards Cheshire.

“She is adjusting, I spoke to a friend of mine that was looking for help at a Special Effects company in Memphis. I managed to get Christina an interview with the manager. Nora is helping her with the interviewing process. If she manages to get the position, it will because of her own accord. If she doesn’t get hired by this one. I know another company that would take her on as apprentice. Also, Nora has taken a young girl under her wing.” Cheshire hopes Christina get this first one. They had a contract with a movie company that would be a great way for Christina to learn her trade. As for the young girl, until Nora ask for her help. She’ll let Nora handle the problem.

“Are Anika and her people in position to figure out who the mole is in MI 5?” Jack had them prepping for that mission.

“According to what Anika told me. Hatter, Terry, Dakota and Shigeko are already in position. Hatter and Dakota have contacted Hatter’s old gang and are working with them. Terry and Alexa have finished the modifications to the cab. All Terry needs now is to contact Mouse and establish a link with MI 5’s computer systems. Morgana is going to handle IT support from this end. Anika and Bart should be flying over tomorrow and be picked up at the airport by Terry.” Debbie has been keeping tabs on Anika and her team. While Jack and Cheshire had been after the Jones person.

“Do we know what the conditions are of the Marshal’s that were in the explosion?” Cheshire was curious about them.

“The two of them are on medical leave right now. As soon as they are cleared for duty. I’ll contact them.” Jack had a meeting with the Deputy
Director of the Marshal service. He informed him what had happened in Memphis. It was beyond his people and the Marshals control. No one knew Jones would had booby trapped the place to explode like it did.

Jack turns the monitor on to see how the girls were doing down in the gym. He saw Christmas giving them ballet lessons.

“I think we have just found a new instructor for the girls.” He moves aside to let Cheshire and Debbie watch.

“When I get back to Hawaii, I’ll sign Krisha up for ballet lessons. I know a good instructor on the island.” Cheshire saw Krisha moved and could
see how she took to the music they were listening to as Christmas taught them how to dance.

Julie and Christmas had gone and gotten married by the justice of the peace. Before they got married, they went and bought wedding gowns to wear before the justice of the peace. Julie had custom engagement and wedding rings made for the two of them. Christmas said she would take Julie’s last name Bounty as her married named.

Jack, Cheshire, Debbie and her two uncles were their witnesses. Gina was still in some pain from her back injuries. Tizzy was in the same boat. Neither girl wanted a big wedding like Gina, Tizzy were planning for their wedding. Their honeymoon was going to be down in Florida, while visiting Christmas parents. That is, if she could take the time off.

Julie had to go by the office to have things changed and updated in her files in HR. Her Captain wanted to see her. So, she was in her uniform and had Sphinx with her. He has been kind of moody lately.

She parks her SUV in her normal parking spot and let Sphinx out as she heads into the building. She visits HR first to take care of the paperwork and update her information as being married now. Once she was done in HR, she heads towards the Captains office. Sphinx was beside her keeping pace with her. A lot of the officers were still amazed at how well-trained sphinx was.

As she approached her Captain’s office, she could see several men already in his office through the window. She pulls Sphinx’s leash out and clip it to his collar. Normally, she wouldn’t bother, but there were people she didn’t, and sphinx didn’t know in the office. She knocks on the door, before entering.

“Come on in Julie.” Captain Basset saw Julie just outside his door.

Julie walks in and shuts the door behind her. There were two ICE agents standing in there.

“You wanted to see me Captain?” Julie heard what has been going on all thanks to the jackass in the White House with ICE lately.

“Yes Julie. I’m going to need for you to work with agent Abdee and agent Padberry as they carry out several arrests.” Captain Basset hated
ordering Julie to do this, but they pulled the Federal card on him.

A slow smile appears on her face “as long as they have the proper court orders for the arrest, I’ll help.”

“We don’t need permission from the courts to arrest illegal aliens.” Agent Abdee was getting sick of being stonewalled.

“So, you have orders to arrest little green aliens from space?” A smile appears on her face.

“You dam well know what I mean. We have orders to arrest illegal immigrates from the President.” Agent Abdee couldn’t believe this woman was giving them a hard time.

“That may be the case, Agent Abdee, but unless they have committed a crime, or you have an arrest order from the courts, I won’t help you.
We play by the rules here in Montana.” Julie looks directly in Agent Abdee eyes.

“From your record, Ms. Bounty. You don’t play by the rules.” Agent Padberry felt he needed to get involved.

“You be surprised by what I play by, but unless the people you are going after have done something wrong to warrant you arresting them on some jackass’s order. You’ll play by the rules here in Montana. Because, if you don’t.” Julie looks directly at him.

“I will personally slap my cuffs on you and toss your sorry ass in jail for false arrest and for harassment. I don’t care if your sorry ass is a federal agent. If you don’t play by the rules while you’re here, I’ll arrest you personally.” She hated the dumbass in office right now.

Agent Padberry went to step closer to Julie and heard a growl.

“I would step back if I was you, or your going to be lunch for my wolf.” Julie heard Sphinx growl.

Agent Padberry looks down at the wolf standing next to Officer Bounty. He couldn’t believe how big he was.

“I would do what she says Agent Padberry. Sphinx is a military trained wolf and he will kill you before you even draw your gun. As for you Agent Abdee, I would take your hand away from your gun, before Julie puts two rounds into you.” Captain Basset had spotted Julie pull her gun.

Agent Abdee looks at Officer Bounty as she had her gun pointed at him. He couldn’t believe she was that observant and fast.

“I would move your hand away from your gun, unless you want me to pull the trigger?” Julie had spotted him moving his hand towards his gun.
She was as sneaky as her father and aunt.

“Now, why don’t we try this again? I will help you agent Abdee and agent Padberry, but you will play this by the rules and not by what the jackass in the White House says. If you don’t like it. I would carry your ass out of Montana as quickly as possible.” Julie puts her gun away.

“SÚil” Julie looks down at Sphinx as he stops growling and sits down next to her legs.

Julie looks towards Agent Padberry “next time you think about coming towards me, I won’t stop him.”

Julie turns and leaves her Captain’s office and out to her SUV. She was pissed that ICE was in Montana arresting and harassing innocent people all because of the bigot, racist, jackass in Washington D.C. Why did so many people believe his damn lies.

She climbs into the SUV, after she holds the door open for Sphinx. Once he was in, she heads towards her favorite convince store. She grabs herself a Pepsi and a Slim Jim for Sphinx. He loved those things. As she walks back outside, she notices a black SUV pull up. She stands there and watches the SUV. She notices two agents get out wearing their body armor with POLICE and ICE underneath.

“Police my ass. If you’re a police officer, I’m a second-grade school teacher.” Julie hated people who pretended to be Police Officer.

“You can help us arrest the person inside here, officer.” Agent Williams and his partner was informed there were illegal immigrants working inside the store.

“Not unless you have an arrest warrant. If you don’t, you better leave, before I arrest you for false arrest, impersonating a police officer and harassment.” Julie presses her remote to open the door on the SUV for Sphinx to come out.

“We don’t need an arrest warrant. Now, step aside.” He steps up close to Julie.

“If I was you, I would get back in that SUV before I send you and your partner to the hospital. If you don’t have an arrest warrant, you don’t go
in.” Julie stood her ground.

“Move officer.” Agent Williams tries to push Julie aside.

Julie brings her knee up into his groin and punch him as hard as she could in the face with her good arm. She watches as he drops down in front of her. The other agent pulls his gun and was about to aim it at Julie, when his arm is grab by Sphinx. Sphinx bites down hard on his arm and takes him down.

“Now, since you didn’t listen to me. You’re under arrest for assaulting a police officer, harassment, and impersonating a police officer.” Julie takes her zip cuffs out and handcuffs Williams, and his partner. She takes their guns and cuffs.

She calls for a patrol car to come by pick them up. She told them what would happen if they didn’t play by the rules. She gets her first aid kit out of her SUV and takes care of the person that got bit by Sphinx.

“Why do you have a Wolf for a K-9?” Agent Harris was looking at Sphinx as he stood nearby.

“Because my family train and raise wolves. Also, you shouldn’t had pulled a gun on me. He’s trained to protect me and if you got hurt because of your stupidly, then you deserve what you got.” Julie fixes his arm.

A patrol car shows up and Julie tells them what happened, word for word. She doesn’t lie or embellish anything.

“Don’t worry Julie. We got you covered. I’ll make sure the charge you are pressing against them stick.” Officer Wright put the two in his car.
Him and a few other officers didn’t like ICE agents pretending to be police officers. He also didn’t like the stupid orders from the jackass in White House right now.

Julie watches as he drives off. She whistles for Sphinx and he jumps into the SUV. She gives him his treat as she starts the car up and heads home.

Julie couldn’t believe how deep the snow was. It had really come down. She reaches down for the thermos she had prepared and brought with her. She takes a sip from it as she fills the coffee inside slide down her throat and warm the inside of her stomach. Christmas was down in the gym teaching ballet to her new sisters and cousin. She rides over towards the landing strip, where she spots her father clearing the landing strip.

She watches him clear the snow first and then lay down the deicer chemical to deice the landing strip. Her father had everything he needed to keep their landing strip clear. She rides closer but doesn’t take her horse onto the strip. She waves towards her father.

Jack spots his oldest daughter on her horse waving at him. He drives the tractor over towards the side of the field.

“What’s up, pumpkin?” Jack wonders what his oldest wanted.

“Do you need any help, dad?” Julie doesn’t mind helping her father.

“I’m almost done, Julie. I only have a few more passes and we’ll be in good shape.”

“I got some coffee, dad. Would you like some?” Julie shows her thermos to her father.

“Sure”

Julie hands her father the thermos and watches as he drinks some. She knew he preferred straight black coffee, but he would drink the coffee she had. He takes a second sip and hands the thermos back to her.

“Thank you so much.” Jack was glad his daughter stopped and offered him some coffee.

“You’re welcome dad.” Julie never thought she would had survived like she did.

She thought for sure she would be dead by now. The Arab that bought her had enjoyed abusing her and Gina. She still felt some pain from her hips. The doctor that broke her hips and forced her to heal back like a normal woman’s hips. He had done so much to her that, she was going to have hip problems when she got older.

She watches her father finish up the runway and head towards the hangar. Her father didn’t mind her bring her horse inside the hangar.

Her aunt’s Lear Jet was stored inside with their other two jets and her father’s Cessna. She had her pilot’s license and could fly any of their
planes and helicopters. She looks towards her father and watches him. She was still sitting up in her saddle.

Jack had put away the tractor and the deicing chemicals he had left over. He walks out and notices his daughter sitting in her saddle thinking.
He knows the facial expression of all his girls.

He walks over to her and her horse “what are you thinking about, sweetie?”

Julie looks down at her father “just wondering what would had happened to me and Gina if you never came along.”

“Well, I’m glad you two never had to find out. Because I am proud to call you and Gina my daughters. I know Debbie is proud of you two girls. so, are your uncles. You shouldn’t worry about what might have been. Because, I would had found you and Gina sooner or later. That Arab had been on my radar for a while.” Bounty rubs the neck of Julie’s horse.

“Thanks, Dad.” Julie had tears sliding down her cheeks. She wipes them away.

She heads out, so her father can close the hangar up. She heads back to the barn and unsaddle her horse and brush him down. She gives him a little extra dry apples and carrots as a treat. She heads inside, after making sure all the other horses are taken care of. She checks on Simba and Khan. They looked like they were comfortable.

When she heads inside the house, she notices Selina was in the process of making lunch. They were having tacos and burritos for lunch. Julie looks at what still needed to be done. She grabs her apron and a knife. She starts chopping up some veggies for the tacos. She makes some rice and refried beans to go along with the tacos and burritos. All the ingredients people will need to make their own.

Selina checks the monitor and notices that Christmas was done teaching. They were leaving to freshen-up.

“Come on Julie. Let’s get everything set-out.” Selina arranges everything in assemble line.

That way everyone could make their tacos and burritos the way they want. Julie watches as the rest of the family is brought in. The new girls
didn’t know what they were supposed to do, but with a little encouragement from their sisters. They were shown how to assemble their meal.
Gina and Tizzy helped the new girls. Tizzy was spending as much time with her little sister and with her fiancé. He was helping Tizzy and they were including Krisha in everything. Tizzy wanted to build a close relationship with her, like Julie had with Gina and their new sisters.

Christmas was enjoying herself. She was officially married to her childhood friend. She just wishes she had given into her feelings. When they
were still in school together. She had gone up to their old school where she taught and updated her file as being married.

Julie does get called for a drug inspection on a routine traffic stop, since she lived nearby. She shows up with Sphinx at the traffic stop. There were two police cars already on scene. She took Sphinx out on his leash and over to the car they pulled over and let him do his job. As she was watching sphinx as he searched for the drugs.

A black SUV pulls up and start spraying the area. Julie gets hit a few times in her vest from the bullets and takes one in her right upper thigh.
Sphinx was still in the car, but he got hit from several bullets. Julie manages to pull her gun out and fire two rounds off towards the retreating SUV. She hits the back window of the SUV and the second bullet hit something inside the SUV. One of the officers got hit in his right arm and left leg. The other officer got hit in the chest as well and in his left arm. The two people that had been pulled over were lying on the ground bleeding.

One of the other officer’s radio for ambulance. She pulls herself over to Sphinx and check on him. He took two bullets to his right side. She does what she can for him. She had learned some emergency first aid for wolves from her father. She presses her necklace to have her father show up, while she tries to slow the bleeding.

Bounty House:
Jack was playing with the twins, when he hears an alert from his cellphone. It was the alert for Julie. He grabs his black leather jacket, handgun and his triple barrel shotgun. Debbie had heard the alert and knew it was Julie’s alarm. She puts the twins down in the playpen and follow behind Jack.

“Go help our baby.” Debbie watches from the front door as Jack runs towards the new Hummer and head down the drive way.

Crime Scene:
When Jack arrives, he sees the paramedics helping the injured police officers and the people they pulled over. He saw Julie, refusing to let the paramedics tend to her wounds till Sphinx was okay.

A State trooper stops him “I’m sorry sir, but you can’t go over there.”

Jack looks at him “my daughter is Officer Bounty and I’m her father. I’m also a legal veterinarian as well. So, unless you know something about wolves, I would move aside.”

The State trooper moves aside and let Jack head over towards Julie and Sphinx.

“How bad is he baby?” Jack stands next to Julie. He notices she was using the car for support.

“I found two entry points, dad. His breathing is kind of swallow and his pulse is slow.” Julie had used her uniform shirt to stop the bleeding.

“Go with the paramedic, baby. I got Sphinx.” Jack looks towards the paramedic that had come over to examine Julie.

Julie reluctantly goes with the paramedic to the ambulance. The bullet was still in her thigh. She didn’t like she had to go to the hospital again. She saw her father carry Sphinx back to the family hummer.

“Can’t you do your job without getting shot?” Christmas looks at her wife.

She had come up to the hospital to pick Julie up. The bullet hadn’t gone through her leg or hit a major artery either. It had impacted against her femur and shattered it.

“It’s part of the job, baby. Unfortunately, it seems lately. I have either been blown-up or shot at.” Julie was worried about Sphinx.

This was the second time he has been injured in the past few weeks. Christmas had come and picked her up in her police SUV. She watches as Christmas drives them home. When they pull into the driveway and park the SUV next to the Hummers.

Christmas helps Julie into the house. Julie causes Christmas to stop.

“I want to check on Sphinx.” Julie wanted to check on her wolf.

“He’s still out, Julie.” Cheshire had heard her niece and came to stop them.

“Is he going to make it, Aunt Cheshire?” Julie was worried that Sphinx might have lost to much blood.

"Ask your father when he comes upstairs." Cheshire knew Jack had to pull two bullets out of Sphinx and fix the damage they did.

She did what she could for him till, her father showed up. She knew how Gina felt about Cadmus. Their wolves have been a big part of their recovery.

“Come on Officer Bounty, let’s get you up to bed.” Christmas makes her wife head upstairs to their bedroom.

“I feel sorry for those two.” Cheshire walks into the living room to check on her family.

Gina wakes-up early the next morning before Arnold. She slides out of bed carefully as she stands up next to her bed holding her headboard for support. She looks down at Arnolds sleeping form and smile. He’s been a big help to her since she left the hospital. Her back still gave her problems.

She grabs her back brace and slip it on over her nightgown. She grabs her robe and slip into her slippers and move carefully out of her bedroom, followed by Cadmus. He had a slight limp to his walk from his injuries. He had used the steps that had been built for him at the foot of the bed.

Gina scratches between his ears. Her poor wolf was as bad off as she was. According to their family doctor and the specialist she was seeing.
It was going to take some time for her to recover from her back injuries. According to the doctor, she was going to need to wear her back brace for two months. She was given some strong pain medicine and muscle relaxers. She didn’t want to get hooked on the pain medicine. Instead she was taking an herbal mixture her aunt had put together for her. It wasn’t as strong, but it didn’t make her feel sleepy or dopey.

She hears one of the other bedroom door opens. Silvia was coming out of her bedroom when she spots Gina and Cadmus. She was worried that she was in trouble for leaving her bedroom.

“Are you a morning raiser as well?” Gina wouldn’t mind some company.

Silvia shakes her head yes.

“Come on, you can join me and Cadmus for coffee or tea if you wish.” Gina starts heading towards the stairs.

“Won’t dad be upset if we turn the alarm off?” Silvia was following behind Gina and Cadmus.

She could tell the poor wolf was limping. She felt sorry for him.

“Dad won’t mind.” Gina makes it to where the hidden alarm panel was and enter her code to shut off the security sensors that monitor the living room.

The windows and doors were still armed. Normally, she would shut the front door sensor off. Then go outside and sit on the porch, but it was too cold for that.

“What would you like to drink?” She makes a cup of coffee for herself.

“Can I have hot chocolate, please?” Silvia has grown to love the hot chocolate Selina makes for them.

“You can have anything you want little sister. You’ll never want in this house.” Gina knew how Silvia felt.

She felt like that when she first came home with Jack. Her and Julia had been tortured and hurt. They didn’t trust Jack at first, because they had seen him kill all the men that guarded and tortured them. They were worried he would do that to them, but then they saw how much he cared and treated them. They have seen what he would do to protect them. They had only been at the house for a week, before a team had been sent to retrieve them.

The Arab master they had was dead, but his brother wanted to avenge him and retrieve them. The people he sent ended up dead and their bodies were mailed back with a letter to the man. He didn’t take the hint and sent another mercenary team to retrieve them. Her father killed them and then asked their aunt and uncles to protect them, while he took care of business.

She heats up some water and milk. She knew the mixture of hot chocolate mix they used required water and milk. She walks over to the pantry and grab everything she needs to make banana nut muffins for breakfast.

“Can I help?” Silvia wanted to help Gina.

“Sure, here is what you can do.” Gina grabs the recipe book Selina keeps in the kitchen and shows Silvia the recipe.

Silvia looks at the recipe and follows it to the letter. She was enjoying herself with Gina standing next to her helping. She notices that Cadmus was laying down on one of the floor pillows they had for the wolves in the kitchen.

“While you were asleep. Julia got shot last night.” Silvia had been up working on some school work when Julia and Christmas came home from the hospital last night.

Gina looks to her little sister “how did that happen? Did Christmas shoot her?”

Silvia just smiles “no, she was injured while searching a car for drugs. She took a bullet to her leg and Sphinx took two bullets.”

Gina shakes her head. Julia wasn’t fully healed from their last assignment. Her arm was still healing and now Sphinx was hurt.

“How is Sphinx doing?”

“Dad won’t allow anyone near him right now. He said the recovery room was off limits, till Sphinx was feeling better.” Silvia wonders if this type of thing always happens with her new family.

Gina notice Silvia had an unspoken question she was thinking about.

“Out with it, Silvia. You’re thinking about something.” Gina puts the first batch of muffin mix into the oven.

“Do you and Julia always get hurt?” Silvia carries over her tray and stick it in the oven.

“Normally no, Silvia. Me and Julia were chasing down a very bad guy. He set a trap for us that we couldn’t had known about and tried to kill us.
Also, as you know Julia is a police officer. Which means she puts her life on the line every time she leaves the house. She never knows what
she is going to get herself into. Dad, lost his first wife while she was doing her job. She was a Montana, Police officer.” Gina remembers her Grandmother telling her about it.

“How about you? Why do you do what you did?” Silvia looks at her sister.

“Because I hate sex traffickers and you always back-up family. I believe in what Julia and Tizzy were doing.” Gina checks on the first batch of muffins and saw they were ready.

She pulls hers out and check the ones Silvia put in. It wasn’t ready yet. She puts a second tray in.

Silvia just thinks about what Gina told her. Alyona comes stumbling in while Gina and Silvia were standing around waiting on the muffins in the
oven. She waves good morning to everyone as she stumbles over to the coffee maker and fixes herself a cup.

“Bad dreams last night?”

Alyona nods her head yes. She still had nightmares of being raped by the men she was forced to have sex. She has been doing better since Gina, Julia and Tizzy freed her.

Gina walks over and hugs her.

Alyona returns the hug. She wasn’t used to people caring for her. She feels Silvia hug her as well.

They stay like that for a few minutes, before Silvia runs over to the oven and pull the muffins. They weren’t brunt but, were a little darker. She prepares the last batch and put them in the oven.

The rest of the family come stumbling into the kitchen. The only person that didn’t show-up was Julia.

“Where’s Julia?” Gina was looking around for her older sister.

“I told her to stay in bed and I would bring her some breakfast. She’s concern about Sphinx.” Christmas walks over and starts fixing a tray for
her wife.

“He’s doing okay, but it will be better if he has a few days to recover.” Jack looks over towards Christmas.

“I’ll tell her, sir.” Christmas brews Julia’s favorite coffee.

“Christmas, you’re family now. Either call me Jack or dad.” Jack smiles at her.

Krisha stays close to Cheshire. Tizzy wraps her arm around her waist. She leans in close to Krisha.

“You’re among family sis. Everyone here would give their life to protect you.” She hugs her.

Ikaika wraps his arm around her as well “you can count me in that statement as well, Krisha. I will protect you with my life as well.” He places a kiss on her cheek.

Christmas just looks at everyone, before heading upstairs to Julia’s bedroom. She walks in and find her wife sitting up in bed.

“I take it, that everyone is finally up?” Julia was watching her wife.

“Yes, and your dad said to give Sphinx a few days to recover, before seeing him.” Christmas sets the tray she had carried up, across Julia’s lap.

While everyone is having breakfast, the doorbell rings. Jack heads towards the front door and answer it. When he opens the door, he notices Captain Basset standing at the door.

“Captain Basset, it’s good to see you again. Come on in.” Jack steps aside to let the captain in.

“Thanks Jack.” Captain Basset walks in and notices two young wolves looking at him.

He recognized Terror right away. He had the darkest fur, but he didn’t recognize the other wolf. He follows Jack into the living room.

Debbie comes walking in with a to go cup in her hand filled with coffee. She knew how cops were when it came to coffee.

“Good Morning Captain Basset. If your anything like my husband. I know how much you enjoy a nice cup of coffee.” Debbie hands the to go cup to the Captain.

“Thank you.” Captain Basset takes a sip and it was just like he likes his coffee. Black with some sugar.

“So, what brings you this way, Captain?” Jack was curious.

“I came to informed Julia that she’s to stay out of the investigation of the people that shot her, Officer Harris and Officer King. Also, I want her
to take some time off, till she is fully healed. Also, how is Sphinx?” Captain Basset liked Sphinx. Most of the officers liked him.

“He’s going to make it. He just needs time to recover.” Jack needed to go down and check on him.

“That’s good to hear.” Captain Basset takes a sip of his coffee.

“Do you know who shot at her and the other officers?” Debbie was curious.

“Not yet, but it won’t be long till we do. We found the SUV they drove during the attack with the back window shot out. There was a bullet in the back of the passenger head rest. It matched the second bullet Julia fired.” Captain Basset knew it had been Julia’s from her report and from a copy of the ballistic report they had on her from killing the gang members.

“I’ll make sure her wife keeps her out of trouble.” Debbie was going to make sure her daughter is occupied while she is recovering.

They talk for a few more minutes and Captain Basset is shown upstairs to Julia’s bedroom. He knocks on the door.

“Enter!” Julia had been informed that her Captain was here.

Captain Basset enters and notices Julia in bed with Christmas sitting nearby.

“How are you feeling, Julia?”

“I’m doing okay, sir. Have you found out who shots at us and why yet?” Julia wanted the people responsible.

“Nope, we are still looking for them. We found the SUV you shot abandoned. Your second shot hit the headrest on the passenger seat. There was a second set of tire tracks that lead off towards the highway.”

“Wouldn’t that mean that the situation was staged?” Christmas was looking towards Julia and her Captain.

“It does make it look like it, but how would they know when it would happen?” Julia was curious.

“Well, it doesn’t concern you, Julia. I don’t want you involve in this investigation and I am asking you to take some time off to heal.” He looks directly at Julia.

“She will. The bullet shattered her femur, so she can’t walk without help.” Christmas looks directly at Julia with a look on her face that said she will follow her captain’s order.

Julia just looks at her wife and resign herself that she wasn’t going to win the argument or convince Christmas.

“Well it’s time for me to go. It’s been nice meeting you Christmas.”

“And you Captain Basset.” Christmas gets up and escorts the Captain downstairs.

Jack calls everyone to the dining room. The news he received last night had hit him hard. A mentor and good friend of his had died. Him and Debbie were going to fly to Netherlands for the funeral of his friend.

Once everyone arrives in the dining room and takes their seats. Jack looks out over his family. He knew Cheshire and her family were planning on heading back home in a few days. He hated leaving his girls and the injured wolves right now.

“Me and your mom are going to be leaving for the Netherlands tomorrow morning. A good friend of mine has died and I’ve been asked to attend his funeral. I don’t know how long we’ll be gone, but till we get back. I want you two girls to listen to Cheshire and do what she says.” Jack knew Julia and Gina were old enough to make their own decision, but he also knew that they were like him as well.

Well, Julia was more like him. Gina would follow her sisters lead and protect her. He looks at Gina and notices she was wearing her new corset, instead of the back brace.

“Are you taking the twins with you Jack?’ Selina looks towards Jack.

“We’re leaving the twins here. I was hoping you and the girls wouldn’t mind taking care of them.” Jack didn’t want to take the twins with him and Debbie to the Netherlands.

He thought about taking them to his mother in Ireland, but he remembered that Anika and her crew were in England.

“We don’t mind, Jack.” Cheshire didn’t mind spending time with the twins.

“Thanks Cheshire. Would you mind keeping an eye on Sphinx and Cadmus as well? I know wolves aren’t your specialty.” Jack knows Cheshire had a degree to treat big game cats.

“No problem. Are you still using Doctor Kilmer if I need assistant or help?”

“Yep. She has a clinic in town and will come to the house.” Jack has her on retainer for the horses on the property.

Jack looks over towards Julia “I want you to follow your Captain’s order, Julia. I know you want to go after who shot you and Sphinx, but you’re in no condition to do either. So, stay home and let Christmas take care of you.”

Julia just glares at her father because she wanted the bastard that shot her and the other officer, including Sphinx. However, she knew her father was right. Her leg was still healing along with her arm as well. Sphinx had been lucky that the bullets hadn’t hit anything vital.

The rest of the day Jack and Debbie packed for their flight to the Netherlands. Jack couldn’t believe his friend had died in his sleep. He glances over towards a photo on the wall of him and his friend. He had been with MI 6 for ten years. When he had been given orders to work with the ICC investigated branch. Normally, MI 6 wouldn’t do that, but he needed the down time from a very bad case.

Debbie spotted her husband looking at a picture on the wall in their bedroom. She glances towards it and spotted the person he was staring at.

“You two seem to be close.”

“We were. He was my mentor and close friend. He helped me through a bad patch of my life back then. You saw how I was after losing April. I took whatever dangerous assignment I could and threw myself into it. My Supervisor at MI 6 saw that I was on a self-destructive path and assign me to the ICC till I got my head together.” Jack had bad memories of that time that still haunted him.

“I didn’t know about the rest of what you told me Jack, but I did know how much you loved my sister. I also know if any of us had known you were acting that foolish. We would had brought your ass back here to Montana and beat the crap out of you. April wouldn’t have approved of your actions.” Debbie knew how her sister would had reacted to Jack acting like that.

“Well, she had company in that. Henry Holzknecht saw how messed up I was and put me back together. He showed me how to better myself and care more about the people in my life. He’s also the one that gave me the drive to go after people like the Cartels and Warlords that commit crimes against humanity.” Jack checks his suitcase and sets it aside to help Debbie with hers.

“Well, I’m just happy you came back to Montana and decided to take over the operations of your father’s ranch. I never did ask how you built your wealth or companies.” Debbie had been curious about that.

“It comes from my mother side of the family. My great, great grandfather built the family fortunate from the ground up with help from our family in Ireland. Most of the companies I own are partially owned by my family. Only a few like the telecommunication companies and a few others are owned 100% by us.” Jack looks towards Debbie when he says that.

“I know Jack. April said that money and power never meant anything to you.” She kisses him.

Julia and Christmas:
Julia was sitting at her father’s desk going over the report she managed to get her hands onto about the shooting. She made a call to a CI she knew that managed to dig up some dirt on the people that attacked her and the other officers that night. She reaches down and scratches
Sphinx on his head, between his ears. Her father said he was allowed to move around the house, but he couldn’t do any chasing or jumping till his wounds have healed.

She reads the information she was given. She couldn’t believe that a drug gang had put a hit out on the people they had stopped. She sighs and lean back in her father’s comfortable chair. She notices sitting on his desk. There was a picture of her and Gina when they first came to live with their father. The wolves were only a year and half years old at the time. It took her father, her now mother and their Uncles to help her and Gina recover from what they had been through.

“You don’t like listening to your father, do you?” Christmas comes walking into Jack’s private office.

She knew Julia liked working in her father’s office. She had gone looking for her and Sphinx. It was time for Sphinx’s to take his pills. The only people he would take them for were Jack, Julia and Selina.

“I know. I just wanted to look at some information I just received from a CI of mine.” Julia looks at Christmas.

“You know, if you keep disobeying your Captain and your father. You are going to be in trouble.”

“I can’t help it. Someone shot at me, Sphinx and my fellow officers. I want to know why they did it.” Julia couldn’t believe someone would be that stupid.

Even if the information she received made sense. It still didn’t sit right to her. Why would someone go to such extremes? She scratches Sphinx’s head again and closes the folder she had all the information in.

Christmas had sat on the edge of Jack’s desk while she watched Julia.

You know something Julia. You might not carry your father’s gene’s, but you’re a lot like him. You are just as determine, hard headed and stubborn as your father is.” Christmas has known the Bounties since she first came to know Julia and Gina.

“I know. He may not be my birth father, but he is the man that rescue me and Gina. Him and the rest of our family made us the women we are today. I have always wanted to be like my father. There’s nothing he wouldn’t do to protect or help people who have been mistreated and abused.” Julia glances at the picture of her, Sphinx, Gina and Cadmus sitting on her father’s desk.

“If you don’t mind me asking, what ever happened to your birth family?” Christmas had always wonder about that.

“They abandon us for something we had no control over. They said we deserved what we got. So, the only family Gina and I have known are the Bounty’s.”

“And now you have me, and we can start our own family.” Christmas leans forward and kisses Julia.

Haylee stops at the entrance of the long driveway. She was tired and cold from biking out to the location on her mountain bike. She pulls the crumpled piece of paper that had the address of Officer Bounty written on it out of her jacket pocket. She was hurting from the beating her father gave her.

She puts the piece of paper back into her battered jacket and bike down the weird looking driveway. She has never seen anything like it before. As Haylee continues to pedal down the road, she notices two black Arabian horses in the field that runs next to the road. She stops and walks over to the fence. She loved horses and has always wanted one, but her step-father wouldn’t allow her to have one.

She tries to entice the horse to come towards her. “Here boy.” She clicks her tongue to try to lure the horse over to her.

She watches as it walks over towards the white fence. When it is close enough for her to pet it. She reaches forward slowly. Her hand was bruised and bloody. She rubs the side of his neck as tears slide down from her eyes.

Selina was in the kitchen making breakfast for everyone. When the perimeter alarm flashes up on the monitor in the kitchen. She brings up the hidden cameras that lined the driveway Jack installed after the property was attacked a while back. She notices the person wearing a bloody pink sweatshirt and blue jeans. There was a boy’s black mountain bike leaning against the fence while the person petted Evening Star. Selina knew Evening Star wasn’t the type of horse to let anyone near her. Evening Star use to be April’s horse. Now, Debbie and Gina rode her.

Selina walks out to find Cheshire. When she comes out of the kitchen she spots Gina and Arnold in the living room watching the news.

“Gina, have you seen Cheshire this morning?”

“Yes ma’am, her, Ikaika, Tizzy and Krisha went to feed and introduce Krisha and Ikaika to Simba and Khan. They should be out near the back
fields watching the Ligers as they play around. Why, what’s up?” Gina knew that Selina normally didn’t go looking for any of them.

Selina looks at Gina. She knew Gina was still recovering, but figure this shouldn’t be any problem.

“We have a visitor down on the main driveway. The person is wearing a bloody pink sweat shirt and is petting Evening Star.” Selina knew Evening Star was picky about who she let pet her.

“If the person is petting Evening Star, then they can’t be that bad. Evening Star is very picky on who she lets pet her. I’ll go and check the person out, Selina.” Gina stands up and runs upstairs to slip her boots on.

“I’m coming with you.” Arnold grabs a handgun from the gun case in Jack’s office.

Gina has been teaching him how to use a gun. They had talked about it and if he was going to marry into the family, then he needed to learn how to handle a gun. He hears Gina coming back downstairs. He meets her in the foyer as he slips on his heavy leather jacket.

The two of them and Cadmus head outside and take her hummer down the driveway towards the person. As they approach, they notice the person was hugging Evening Star and had their face buried against her neck.

Haylee hears a vehicle coming towards her. She just held the horse and cried against her neck. She didn’t care if she got arrested now.

Arnold pulls the hummer over and gets out along with Gina. He watches as Gina walks towards the figure. He was going to cover her from the hummer.

“She’s a nice horse, isn’t she?” Gina approaches slowly towards the figure.

Haylee wipes the tears from her eyes as she turns to face the person.

“She’s a beautiful horse. I wish I had a horse like her.” Haylee looks at the person and recognized who it was.

“You’re Gina Bounty, aren’t you?” Haylee remembered Julia telling her and showing her that she had a sister.

Julia had showed her a picture of herself and her little sister with their wolves. It was during the lunch she bought for her. Julia had caught her stealing some food. Her step-father hadn’t feed her or her sister for days. She had managed to escape their lock bedroom.

“How do you know about me?” Gina was curious.

Gina notices that the girl had bruising around her neck and eyes.

“Your sister told me. She said you have a wolf named Cadmus.” Haylee was looking pass her towards the hummer and the man standing by the driver door.

“I do.” Gina snaps her fingers.

Haylee watches as a wolf that looked like Sphinx jumps out of the hummer. It walks up to Gina with a limp and stands by her. She couldn’t believe how much it looked like Sphinx.

She kneels and looks at Cadmus “He looks just like Sphinx. Except, he has more gray fur.” She knew better than to try and touch him. Julia warned her that the wolves were trained.

“He’s Sphinx’s brother.” Gina reaches down to touch Cadmus head.

Haylee stands up “I need to see your sister. I, I killed my step-father.”

Gina could see that she had blood on her hands and clothes. She also had bruising around her neck and eyes.

“Let’s get your bicycle and put it in the hummer.” Gina walks over towards Haylee with Cadmus walking next to her.

Haylee walks over towards the fence and gives the horse a hug before grabbing her bicycle. She walks back towards the hummer pushing the bicycle. Gina lifts the rear hatch and help the girl put the mountain bike in the hummer.

Arnold couldn’t believe what he heard about the girl killing her step-father. He gets back into the hummer and drive them back to the house.
Gina was sitting up front with him. The girl and Cadmus were in the back.

Haylee watches as they drove up the driveway. Cadmus was sitting next to her, watching her. She didn’t know who the man was that was driving them. She spots an old style Victorian mansion. She watches as the guy driving parks the hummer next to another hummer and Julia’s police SUV. There was another SUV parked next to Julia’s police one.

“Since you know my name, what is yours?” Gina turns around to look at the young girl.

“It’s Haylee. Haylee Bastain.” Haylee opens the hummer’s door and gets out followed by Cadmus.

Gina escorts Haylee into the house followed by Cadmus. As they walk into the house, Gina spots her younger sister Alyona heading towards the kitchen.

“Alyona, do you know if Julia is awake?”

Alyona stops when she hears Gina’s question and wonders who the teenage girl is behind her.

“I think she’s in the kitchen getting coffee. Christmas had to go and teach today.” Alyona saw Julia’s bedroom door open when she went by it.

“Thanks, Alyona.” Gina follows Alyona to the kitchen.

Julia was sitting at the dining room table drinking her coffee and munching on a blue berry muffin Selina made this morning. She looks up when Gina comes walking in followed by Haylee. She wonders what Haylee why doing here.

“Haylee, what are you doing here?” Julia was concern. The last she heard, Haylee and her little sister had been put in a foster home.

Haylee runs over to Julia and throws her arms around her. She buries her face against Julia’s body and start crying. Cadmus was getting ready to chase after her, but Gina stopped him and Sphinx from attacking her.

Julia just holds her as she cried against her. She notices the bruises and the blood covering her hands and on her sweatshirt. She could tell she needed a bath as well.

“Haylee, what happened.” As she held her.

“I killed my step-father.” Haylee looks up at Julia.

Julia was shocked when she heard that news. She looks up and everyone in the kitchen and dining room heard what Haylee said.

“Haylee, what do you mean you killed your step-father? I thought you were in a foster home?” Julia was confused.

“Haylee, why don’t you sit here and tell us what happened from the beginning.” Gina pulls a chair out for Haylee to sit on.

Haylee sits down on the chair and looks at everyone watching her.

“Haylee, just look at me and tell me what happened.” Julia was trying to get her attention.

Haylee looks at Julia. She takes a deep breath before she begins. Her ribs were hurting her, where her step-father kicked her.

“After we were put in the foster home. Niles, found out where we were and kidnapped us. He killed our foster parents. He took us to an abandoned house and locked me and my sister up. He would leave us for days without any food or water. I managed to hoard some water and food for my sister. He came back this morning and unlocked the door and was yelling for us to come out. When we did, he, he, killed my sister.
I charged him, and we started fighting. I managed to knock his gun out of his hand. He grabbed me by my throat and slam me up against the wall. I managed to kick him in his groin and he dropped me and kicked me several times. I spotted his gun and scrambled to get it and shot him with it. I just kept shooting him till there were no bullets. He killed my sister.”

Tears were sliding down Haylee’s face.

“Come mere Haylee.” Julia holds her arms out for her.

Haylee leaps into Julia’s opened arms and hug her. She buries her face against Julia’s shoulder. She lets all the tears she was holding back
come out.

Julia grits her teeth when Haylee brushes up against her injured leg. She holds Haylee against her body and let the poor girl cry. She knew things had been rough for Haylee, but she hoped that Haylee and her sister would get a second chance in the foster care system. She also knew how close Haylee was to her little sister.

“Julia, how did you get out here to me?” Julia looks down towards Haylee.

“Haylee leans back to look at Julia. I stole a mountain bike from a house I came across. I still had your address with me.” Haylee pulls out the piece of paper Julia had given her.

“Do you remember where the house is that your father stashed you?”

Haylee shakes her head yes.

“Can you lead me back to it?”

“Yes ma’am.” Haylee stands up.

Gina looks at her sister “remember what dad said?”

“I know, but I need to check this out.” Julia stands up from her chair.

“No, you’re not. You can come, but you’re not getting out of the hummer. I’ll check the place out for you.” Cheshire had come walking in when she heard what happened.

Tizzy, Krisha and Tizzy’s boyfriend were behind her. Tizzy just looks at her cousin.

“You know mom is right, Julia.” Tizzy knew better then to argue with her mother.

“Alright, come on Haylee. Let’s get you cleaned up and take pictures of your injuries. Then we will go and check out the crime scene.” Julia
uses her crutches and take Haylee upstairs and take pictures of Haylee’s injuries.

Haylee wonders who the older oriental woman was that made Julia back down. She follows Haylee into her bedroom and allows her to take pictures of her body and such. She knew Julia was going to need those pictures for the courts.

Afterwards, Julia shows Haylee to the bathroom and let her take a bath. While Haylee was in the bathroom, Julia goes through the pictures she took and couldn’t believe how skinny and malnourish she was. She also couldn’t believe how many bruises she had.

There was a knock-on Julia’s bedroom door. Julia turns around to see who it was. She spots Alyona standing at her door.

“What’s up sis?”

Alyona walks into her sister’s bedroom. She had picked out some of her clothes to share with Haylee.

“I thought Haylee might like some clean clothes to wear. She looks to be around my size, so I grabbed a few things for her.” She sets them down on the bed.

“Thank you, Alyona. I know she will appreciate it.” Julia walks forward and gives Alyona a hug.

“Are you okay?” Julia was concerned about Alyona.

“I’m alright. Is it okay if I come with you and Aunt Cheshire?” Alyona wanted to see what her big sister did.

“Let me check with Aunt Cheshire, first. She’s making me stay in the car.” Julia didn’t see any harm with it. She knew Alyona was curious about what she did.

“Thanks.” Alyona turns around heads downstairs.

Julia picks the clothes up and carry them to the bathroom. She knocks on the door before stepping in for a second.

“Haylee, I’m bring you some clean clothes. There here on the toilet seat.”

Haylee was sitting down in the shower under the spray of the water. She wanted her sister back. Every time she closed her eyes she saw her
sister being shot by her step-father.

Julia spotted Haylee sitting on the floor of the shower holding her legs. She slips back out of the bathroom and hope everything was alright with her.

Cheshire drove them to the house that Haylee gave her directions too. Julia was amazed that Haylee was able to ride a mountain bike the distance she did. It took them an hour by car to ride out to the house, which was in the middle of nowhere. It must have taken Haylee at least two hours or more to ride out to her.

Cheshire pulls the hummer up to an old rust color Ford pickup truck. She looks towards Julia “you stay here.”

“I’ll make sure she stays mom.” Tizzy had come along to make sure Alyona and Julia stayed in the car. Haylee was sitting next to her.

Cheshire gets out of the hummer and walks inside the house. The place needed to be burned down. She finds some camping equipment, she figures Haylee’s step-father must have been using. She finds a box with Haylee’s and her sisters Social Services files in them, along with a few other papers.

She finds Haylee’s step-father’s body lying on the floor in a pool of his own blood. She takes several snapshots of his body and the surrounding area as well. She spots his gun lying nearby with the slide extended backward. Which Cheshire knew meant it was empty. She looks around and spots a little girl’s body with long brown hair. She was wearing a tattered dress and lying in a pool of her own blood.

Cheshire makes sure she has pictures of everything. She could tell the little girl was shot from the front. She could see footprints in the dust covering the floor. She makes sure she takes pictures of them. She backtracks her steps and heads back outside to the hummer.

“Call your Captain, Julia and have him send a team out here.” Cheshire gets back in the hummer.

“Won’t he want to arrest me?” Haylee looked nervous and concern.

“No, you’re under my care and protection.” Julia dials her Captain’s number.

Boulder Police Department:
Captain Basset was enjoying his morning coffee and going over the latest reports into the investigation of the people who shot Officer Bounty, Officer Harris and Officer King when his desk phone rings.

“Hello, Captain Basset Office.”

“Good morning Captain. Can you send a patrol car to 251 Forest Grove Road?” Julia had spotted the name of the dirt road when they came down it.

“Julia, what have you done?” Captain Basset wonders what his K9 officer has done now.

He knew the Bounty family were known to take the law into their own hands at times. He knew that Jack himself was a former government agent with a lot of connections. He also knew Julia took after her father.

“I didn’t do anything Captain. Remember that girl and her sister I helped a while back? Well, they were kidnapped from their foster family by their step-father. He killed the foster family and the little girl. Haylee ended up shooting him. She came to the house to tell me. I and my aunt are down here at the house he had been holding the girls at. I’ve taken all the pictures and stuff you’re going to need. Haylee is going to be staying with my family.”

“Alright. I’ll send a detective to handle everything. Give them everything you got and keep me informed. If the detective gives you any problems, don’t sic Sphinx on them.” Captain Basset knew a detective once pissed Julia off and sics Sphinx at him.

“Sphinx isn’t with us, captain. He’s back home. He’s not fit for duty right now.” Julia wasn’t going to endanger her buddy.

“Alright, just be nice to the detective.” Captain Basset hangs up.

Julia looks towards Cheshire “he’s sending a Detective down here to handle this. He wants us to turn over everything we have to him.”

“He can have the pictures I took. I’ll save a copy for us. Also, Haylee acted in self-defense. There’s no way she could have protected her sister.” Cheshire would have skinned the man if he was still alive for what he did to his girls.

“Julia, will I be going back into foster care?” Haylee didn’t want to leave Julia.

“No, I’m going to adopt you as my daughter.” Julia wasn’t going to let Haylee go through what she did again. She’ll adopt her as hers and Christmas daughter.

Alyona has been sitting quietly and listening. She was sitting next to Tizzy. Haylee was sitting behind Julia with Tizzy in between them. They sat and waited for the detective to show up.

A black Dodge Challenger pulls up next to the Hummer and a tall, black hair man built like a football player gets out of the car. He looks at the Hummer and knew right away who it was. The windows might be blacked out, but he has seen this hummer before.

“Dam! They had to send that prick.” Julia didn’t like him at all.

He was the one that insulted her and Sphinx. In responses to his insult, she sics Sphinx on him. She rolls down her window “Hello, Detective Southwark.”

Southwark looks down at Julia “I should have known you would have something to do with this.”

“Actually, I’m glad I’m involved.” Julia gives him a sweet smile.

“I thought you were on medical leave and haven’t been cleared yet to come back to work.” Detective Southwark had heard what happened to Julia Bounty and her dam wolf.

He wanted that damn dog put down for the bite he gave him, but Julia’s captain stopped the request. He really didn’t like Julia Bounty. He had heard how she got her job and how she basically got away with a lot more than most cops.

“I am, but the person you were called out here about came to my home and is under my protection. If you want to talk with her, she's right here sitting behind me.” Julia knew he would want to talk with Haylee.

“Alright, let me talk with her.” Detective Southwark pulls his notebook out and gets ready to interview Haylee.

Haylee rolls down her window and tells Detective Southwark everything she told Julia. When she was done she had tears streaming down her cheeks. She feels Tizzy’s arms wrapped around her and hold her.

“I just sent you the pictures I took of Haylee. Also, my aunt sent you pictures of what she took inside as well.” Julia knew Detective Southwark’s email.

Detective Southwark was surprised to hear Julia had an aunt. Her file had a few people listed.

“You brought a civilian to a crime scene and let her walk around inside?” Southwark couldn’t believe what Julia did.

“No, I brought my father’s partner who knows about crime scenes.” Julia didn’t need to tell Detective Southwark that Cheshire is a retired CIA Black Op’s agent.

“What type of work did she do with your father?” Detective Southwark wanted to know.

“Stuff that’s above your paygrade, Detective.” Cheshire had opened her door and got out. She was looking at him.

Detective Southwark saw the older Oriental woman looking at him. He could tell just by looking at her eyes that she was dangerous. He felt that she wasn’t the type of woman you wanted coming after you.

Cheshire just glares at the dumbass detective. She heard how he spoke to Julia. She doesn’t know what his problem was with her, but she was going to put an end to it.

“You should have the pictures I took in an email I sent you. Like Julia said.” Cheshire had let Julia send the pictures from her cell phone.

“Where can I reach you, if I need to ask you any questions?”

“I thought you were a Detective?” Cheshire gets back into the Hummer.

Julia wanted to laugh at Cheshire’s comment.

“See you later Southwark.” Julia rolls up her window as Cheshire backs the hummer up.

“I can’t believe you said that mom.” Tizzy was looking towards her mother.

“It doesn’t take 2+2 to figure out where I will be.” Cheshire just drives them home.

“That’s my mom.” Tizzy had a smile on her face.

Alyona and Haylee just grin at Tizzy’s statement.

Liger picture: Photo Courtesy of Myrtle Beach Safari
Two Wolves: Published: MARKO

Detective Spokes was getting nowhere with their suspect and was running out of time. They needed to find Sara Garcia before she needed to take her next insulin shoot. He looks at the man before him that was responsible for kidnapping her. He and his partner have been trying to get him to tell them where she was being kept, but he wouldn’t tell him. He didn’t care if the girl lived or died.

They were getting down to the wire. Detective Spokes leaves their perp in the interrogation room and heads towards Captain Basset’s office. He knocks before he goes in.

Captain Basset looks up at his Detective “any luck Spokes?”

“No sir. He’s not talking, and we tried everything. Short of beating the location out of him, he won’t talk and tell us where he hid Sara and she doesn’t have much longer before she needs her insulin shot.” Detective Spokes was concerned about the girl.

Her parents were nice church going people. They worked hard and had a business in downtown. If they didn’t find Sara, the guy would win, and she would be his fourth victim.

Captain Basset looks at Spokes and could see the concern on his face. He agreed that they were running out of time. He sighs as he picks his phone up.

“You better leave Spokes.” Captain Basset knew he had no choice, but to bring Julia and Sphinx in to get the answers he needed.

“Understood, Captain.” Spokes turn around and walk out of his Captain’s office.

Captain Basset dials Julia’s cellphone number.

Bounty resident’s
Haylee was learning how to play chess from Alyona. The family found out that Alyona was an excellent chess player. She had beaten Cheshire three out of four times they had played. Cheshire wasn’t an easy person to beat in chess. She was considered an Expert in the chess world. Well, her other identity was considered an expert in chess. However, once she showed Alyona and played a few games with her. She picked up on the game fast. Cheshire makes a mental note to tell Jack when he comes back from the Netherlands.

He had made a Skype call last night on the big screen in the living room and spoke to everyone. Both him and Debbie missed everyone, including the twins and said they were going to be another week. There were a few matters that he had to take care of. He said he would speak with Julia about her plans to adopt Haylee as hers and Christmas daughter.

He informs them that Alyona, Silvia and Krisha immigration status have been taken care of. Their new id cards should be arriving within a few days by Federal Express. Also, there should be a few gifts arriving as well for everyone at the same time. He informs Selina that a cargo container will be arriving and to put it in the other barn, till he gets back.

Julia was checking on Sphinx’s wound when her cell phone starts ringing. She checks the number and notices it was her Captain calling her.

“Good afternoon Captain Basset, what can I do for you?” Julia was surprised that her Captain called.

The last time they spoke was when she called him about Haylee. That was only five days ago.

“Julia, I have a favor to ask of you and this goes against procedures.” Captain Basset didn’t like stepping outside the law, but they had to find this girl.

“Does this have something to do with Sara Garcia, Captain?” Julia figures that this was the only reason Captain Basset would break rules.

“Yes, it does. The suspect we arrested is responsible for Sara Garcia kidnapping isn’t talking and we only have a short time to find her.
Can you bring one of your younger wolves down to the police station and extract the location from him?” Captain Basset figures they could easily say that the young wolf wasn’t completely trained and had stumbled into the interrogation room.

“You want me to come in with one of the wolves and extract the information from your suspect? Are you sure you want to go down this path,

Captain? This is a slippery slope.” Julia knew her Captain normally, didn’t do things like this.

“I know Julia, but we have no other choice. She’s diabetic and time is running out.”

“Alright Captain, I’ll bring Terror with me. He is a little hard headed and is just like his sire.” Julia knew Terror was going to grow up and be just like Chaos.

She knew her father has already started cloning Chaos. They were going to have three of them. Plus, Sphinx and Cadmus were going to be a clone as well. Their father had agreed to have them cloned. He knew how much she and Gina loved their wolves.

“Thanks, Julia.” Captain Basset was relieved when Julia agreed to this favor.

“I’ll see you in twenty minutes, Captain.” Julia ends the call.

She limps upstairs to change her shirt. She was wearing her favorite lounge around the house shirt and no bra. She changes and heads back downstairs to find Terror. Sphinx was upstairs in her and Christmas room sleeping on her their bed. Cadmus was downstairs laying at Gina’s feet in the den with her and Arnold. The twins were playing with Miscreant. Manes was laying by Alyona’s feet while she and Haylee played chess. Silva was reading a book and listening to her iPhone. Tizzy and her boyfriend went out to see a movie. Cheshire was watching Alyona and Haylee and helping Alyona explain the moves and pieces.

“Terror, come here boy.” Julia whistles for him.

“He’s outside Julia.” Christmas comes out of the kitchen and notices that Julia had changed her top.

Julia looks over towards her wife and notices she had a pudding cup in her hands. Julia just smiles at her.

“Thanks. Oh, I need for you to give me a lift down to the station. My captain needs to ask me a few questions.” Julia didn’t want to tell Christmas the real truth.

“Okay. So, why are you taking Terror with you then?” Christmas was wondering why her wife was taking Terror, instead of Sphinx.

“I wanted to introduce him to the captain. Until Sphinx is healed completely, I figure I’ll use Terror.” Julia grabs her jean jacket from the closet.

Christmas grabs her Jacket and the two of them head towards Julia patrol car. Julia whistles for Terror. He comes running around the corner of the house and hops into the SUV.

Christmas drives Julia to the police station and parks the SUV. After Christmas parks the SUV, Julia turns to face Christmas.

“I sort of lied to you Christmas. The reason we are here is my Captain needs me to use Terror to make a suspect talk. It’s about the guy who kidnapped Sara Garcia. He won’t give-up where she is and the Detective working the case is running out of time. They need to find her soon or she’ll die.” Julia didn’t like lying to her wife.

“Are you sure that this is the only choice?” Christmas was a little upset that Julia would lie to her, but then again, she could understand as well.

“Yes. I asked the Captain the same thing before I agreed to this.” Julia knew she would have done it if she had taken the case.
Christmas looks Julia in the eyes “do what you have to do sweetie.”

“Thanks.” Julia kisses her lips before they head inside the police station.

Inside Police Station (Interrogation Room):
Mitch Anderson had a smile on his face. He knew the girl would die unless they dropped the charges against him. If they didn’t then he would just let the girl die like the other three girls had. It didn’t matter, he would give them the wrong location after they dropped the charges against him.

He looks up when a young woman that looked like Charisma Carpenter twin comes walking into the interrogation room. She had a worn looking fleece-lined jean jacket, a baby blue blouse underneath, brown leather boots and was wearing blue jeans. He notices that she was using a cane to walk.

Walking beside her was a mean looking dog. The thing stood a little past her knees. Once she was inside the room, she shuts the door behind her.

A smile appears on his face as he looks towards the woman “are you supposed to make me talk?”

Julia just smirks “nope, I know you won’t talk to me, but I’m willing to bet that you will sing like a songbird for my wolf.”

“You won’t let it hurt me, you’re a cop.” Mitch knew she was bluffing.

“You’re right, I am a police officer. However, my father is a top-notch government assassin and he taught me everything he knows and told me
creeps like you don’t deserve to live. So, I’m going to follow his advice.” An evil smile appears on Julia’s face.

“You can’t do this.” Mitch was getting nervous now.

Julia doesn’t even respond to him “Ionsaí!”

Terror leaps straight for him. His jaw locks around Mitch’s arm when he goes to protect himself. Terror sinks his teeth into the guy's flesh and shakes his head.

Mitch starts screaming as he feels the wolfs teeth sink into his arm to the bone. He tries to shake the wolf off, but the wolf had a good grip on his arm.

“Now, are you going to tell us where the girl is, or should I have him go for something more personal?” Julia leans forwards when she says this to him.

“I’ll talk, I’ll talk, just get this damn dog off me.” Mitch looks into the eyes of the wolf.

“SÚil!” Terror releases and goes over to Julia.

Detective Spokes comes in and stands next to Julia. He was ready to send people to the location.

“Oh, one more thing. If you decide to lie to us. I have six other wolves that will enjoy having you for dinner.” Julia wasn’t joking.

She’ll take him back to her father’s place and give him the same chances her father gave some of his enemies. She would love to see this scum survive five wolves coming for him and two Ligers.

Mitch looks at Julia and then at the wolf sitting next to her. “She’s at 1305 Monty Rhodes Road. She’s down in the basement.”

“Thanks, Julia.” Detective Spokes runs out of the interrogation room.

Two uniforms come walking in “take him to the cells and bandage up his arm.”

“Yes, ma’am.” As they go to get the first aid kit.

Julia and Terror walk out of the room and towards her Captain office.

Julia and Christmas were talking with the family lawyer about adopting Haylee as their daughter. They had spoken about it. Julia had made her case about how she had saved Haylee once. She had hoped she would have been safe. As it turned out, she ended up losing a sister and almost losing her own life. The only place she could be safe was to be their daughter and live with them.

Even though Haylee’s father was dead. There still was the possibility something bad could happen to her and she wasn’t comfortable with that. She didn’t want to see Haylee suffer anymore. So, they met with child protected services and informed them that they were going to adopt Haylee. The Bounty family would handle the funeral for Haylee’s sister.

After Julia and Christmas meet with the lawyer. They take Haylee shopping and let her choose how she wanted her bedroom. While they are shopping, they take Haylee to the beauty salon. All day long and late into the evening. By the time they get back home. Haylee is worn out and looking like a princess. Julia ends up tucking her into bed as she heads towards hers and Christmas bedroom.

As she is laying in bed, the next morning. Her cell phone starts ringing. She picks it up and looks at the number.

It was Captain Basset calling her “hello Captain Basset. Please tell me you don’t need for me to come in and interrogate another person.”

“Actually, Julia. I’m sending you to the LAPD training facilities. They need an experience K9 trainer to train a new trainer. The Police Commissioner of California police force heard about you and Sphinx. He called our Police Commissioner and requested you and Sphinx. I told him you were out on medical leave. However, do you think you are up to training some K9’s?” Captain Basset had already agreed to send Julia but wanted to make sure she would take the assignment.

“I can handle the K9 training, Captain.” Julia knew she could handle instructing the new trainer.

“Good, because you leave in two days. I know your family has their own private jet and Sphinx would feel better flying with you, then being in an animal carrier.”

“True, Captain. Sphinx travels better in familiar territory, then an unfamiliar territory, but I’m also planning on taking Terror with me as well. He’s a younger wolf and they can see the difference between how Sphinx responds to problems and how Terror responds to problems.” Julia figures taking a younger wolf and an older wolf, like Sphinx. The K9 trainers for LAPD could see how each wolf worked.

“Well, call me back later today, and I’ll give you the details of where you will be staying.” Captain Basset would call the California Police Commissioner inform him that she was coming.

“Before you plan anything, Captain. Let me check with my father and see if we have an apartment or house in LA.” Julia knew her father had safe houses and vacation houses.

“Alright, call me when you find out.”

“I will Captain. Have a nice day.” Julia disconnects and gets up out of bed.

Her leg was doing better, but she still wasn’t up to 100% yet. However, she could still train or instruct others in how she did things. Her father wasn’t due home for a few more days. Julia locates her father’s number and switches her cell phone to secure mode. She dials her father’s number.

The Netherlands (Tuesday Afternoon):
Jack and Debbie were out taking a stroll enjoying each other’s company. Jack missed the Netherlands and would love to come back here to live. He missed the culture and the people. He had shown Debbie his favorites places. He introduced her to some of the people he uses to associate with. The man he had come to bury, had saved his life.

As they are walking, his cell phone starts ringing. He pulls his cell phone out and notices it was his daughter Julia calling him.

He answers it “hey sweetie, what’s up?”

“Hi, daddy. How are you and mom doing?” Julia couldn’t wait till they get back.

“Is everything okay, sweetheart?” Jack was wondering if something had happened at the house.

“Everything is okay, daddy. There is something you should know if Aunt Cheshire hasn’t told you yet. You and mom are grandparents now. Christmas and I adopted a girl I thought was safe but ended up losing her younger sister. Her name is Haylee daddy. I don’t know if I told you or not, but due to recent events. Her step-father killed her younger sister and tried to kill her. She managed to get a hold of the gun and killed her step-father. She has no other family that is trustworthy and I wasn’t going to put her back into social services again. So, Christmas and I adopted her. However, that isn’t why I called you daddy. Captain Basset called me and said he got a request from the Police Commissioner of California to come out and train one of their K9 people. He heard about me and Sphinx and the work we have been doing. So, I was calling to see if you had a place in Los Angeles.” Julia figures her father would.

Jack had listened to his daughter on speaker phone and so Debbie could hear what they were talking about.

“I don’t, but your Aunt Cheshire does. She has a 3-bedroom apartment, in Los Angeles that she uses when she flies over from Hawaii. She sometimes gives lectures at UCLA and stays there when she is in California. You might want to talk with her.” Jack has used the place a few times when he was in LA.

“I’ll talk with Aunt Cheshire and ask her if I can use it while I’m in LA.” Julia knew her aunt wouldn’t mind.

“Is Christmas and your daughter going with you?” Jack wouldn’t mind meeting his new granddaughter.

“No, sir. Christmas won’t have any vacation time until this summer. Your granddaughter will start school next week. Gina and Arnold are going to get her into shape while I’m gone, and Christmas is working with her at night to catch her up.” Julia has been working with Haylee to help her recover.

“Okay, Sphinx should be okay to take with you, but don’t push him too hard.” Jack knew Sphinx was still healing.

“Actually dad, I was going to take Terror with me as well.” Julia knew that would make her father happy.

“Is the police department going to have a car waiting for you?” Jack wanted to know if he should have one waiting for her.

“I don’t know yet. I asked my Captain not to make any arrangements till I spoke with you.”

“Well, find out if they have a car waiting for you and if they don’t. Call Sara Wolff and have her bring a car to you at the airfield.” Jack had rescued Sara from a gang.

“You mean Zigzag, dad?” Julia remembered meeting her once.

They had gone to California for vacation. She had only seen her from a distance.

“Yes, I mean Zigzag. She works at a storage place and takes care of things for me and your aunt.” Jack didn’t tell his daughter that the business was owned by him.

“Thanks, dad. I can’t wait for you and mom to come home. The twins are missing their mother.” Julia knew the twins love and miss their father and mother.

“Well, you’ll be home in two days. I know you won’t be home, but I’ll call to let you know I’m fine and to talk with Haylee.” Julia wanted to stay in touch with Haylee and Christmas.

“Tell everyone we love them, and we’ll see them in two days. Love you, sweetie.” Jack ends the call.

Julia heads downstairs to speak with Cheshire and afterward call her Captain back. When Christmas gets home. She and Christmas sit down and talk about her new assignment.