CHAPTER 91
"It is worse than that. It was the new grapes that cost a lot of money. They were supposed to release a new wine. It was an ice wine. They were depending on the money from the ice wine to carry them through next winter." I told him.
"What will you be able to do?" He asked.
"Hopefully tell them who the items belonged to so they can be punished." I told him kissing him on the cheek. I opened a door to the front of Nancy's house and went through it. I knocked on the door. Nancy opened it right away.
"Good morning," she said.
"Well, we can say it is morning," I laughed.
"Is something wrong?" Nancy asked, concerned.
"Morning and I don't get alone lately," I told her. She gave me a strange look.
"Come have some tea. Tyson will be back in a minute. Explain to me what you mean don't get along." Nancy said.
"It is nothing." I said, sitting at the table.
"No, it is not nothing."
"I just don't feel well when I wake up. I'm sure it will pass, " I told her. Nancy started to laugh.
"Why are you laughing?"
"You should go see the doctor, Sasha." Nancy said.
"Why, would I need to do that?" I asked, not thinking it was funny at all.
"Oh, my Goddess Sasha, has it been that long you don't remember?"
"Nancy, what are you getting at?"
"You're having pups or a pup, Sasha," Nancy said, smiling ear to ear. I sat and thought about it, and she was right. I was finally pregnant again. I started to laugh, too. Tyson came into the house as we were laughing.
"Ok, what is so funny?" He asked. I got up and ran and hugged him.
"I'm pregnant." I said.
"Congratulations, Sasha." Tyson said.
"Ok, bring me the evidence you collected last night, and I need to know who touched it." Sasha said, getting right down to business.
"I got the bag from the safe in our room and brought it down.
"Sasha, how did you know we had a safe in the house?" I asked her, giving her the bag.
"Don't all Alpha's keep a safe in their personal homes?" She questioned.
"I don't know, maybe." I said.
"Who touched these things." I asked.
"Brent said he found them and used gloves to collect everything." Tyson told me. Then I opened the bag and took out each item one at a time. When I was done with the item, I laid them down on the table.
"Five people touched the cigarettes one adult male and then four teens. The two lighters have so many imprints of people. The same goes with the matches."
"Great, we would never find out who burned down the crops." Tyson said. But then I picked up the zippo with a smile.
"There are only three imprints on this lighter.
Two young females and the actual owner. Henry Phillips." I said.
"Are you sure?" Tyson asked.
"There is no doubt in my mind. The zippo had a special meaning for him." I told them.
TYSON'S POV
I could not believe my ears. Henry, there was no way he could or would have set the crops on fire. I linked Sean.
"Uses the security P.A. system and have all pack members in front of the pack house in five minutes. Only warriors on duty are to stay at their posts." I did not wait for him to answer. I closed the link. Five minutes later, the sires went once. Then we could hear Sean’s voice instructing all pack members but warriors to gather around the pack house immediately. Sasha, Nancy, and I went to the pack house and stood waiting for everyone to arrive.
"Alpha, why are we here someone yelled."
"Please, everyone, give us a minute for everyone to arrive." I asked. I turned to Sasha.
"You're sure about Henry?" I asked. She nodded.
"As you all know last night, we lost one of our vineyards to a fire. After we got the fire out, we discovered evidence that points us to the person who started the fire. Henry Phillips, can you please come up here." He came up and stood in front of me.
"Alpha, why have you called me up here?" He asked.
"Henry, do you recognize this?" I asked, holding out the zippo lighter.
"It looks like a lighter I own, Alpha." Henry said.
"Where is your lighter?" I asked him.
"On my mantel where I put it every night after I smoke my pipe after dinner." He said.
"I will have two warriors go with you. So, they can see that your zippo lighter is on the mantel on not. We will wait for your return. They went to Henry's home. When I saw the woman who touched his arm. I then realized who his daughter was. He had been at work in the brewery when I had taken the girls home the other day. Nancy saw the look on my face.
"Tyson, what is it?" She asked. I linked her and told her what I had just realized.
The warriors came back with Henry.
"Alpha, Henry's lighter was not on the mantel." The one warrior told me.
"So Henry, it is safe to say you're zippo light is actually a very unique one?" I asked.
"Alpha, if that lighter does not have my initials in the snake’s eyes, then it is not mine." Henry said. Sasha nodded at me.
"Henry, where were you last night at about 9?"I asked.
"Just clocking into work, Alpha. This month, I'm on nights." Nancy linked me and reminded me of the two other imprints on the lighter.
"This leaves me quite confused. Henry, you say you were clocking in at work, yet it was your lighter that started the fire."
"What did you just say?" His wife yelled. But not at me but at the girl standing beside her.
"Alpha, my daughter and her friend caused the fire on purpose." The woman said.
"How do you know this?" I asked. She came forward with the girl.
"Tell Alpha what you just said. NOW!"
"Dad's lighter didn't start the fire. We could not figure out how to work it, so we used the disposable lighters." She started to cry.
"Why?" I yelled.
"You took everything away from us until we went to stupid training." She whimpered.
"Who is we?"
"My friend Tangra and me."
"Do you realize what you have done, Cindy?" I asked.
"We burned some grape plants. I don't know what the Biggy is?" She said.
"Let me tell you. Those grapes were special grapes for a special wine that would have kept the pack clothed and fed for the next two winters. Paid your father and mother so they could let you do things like get your nails and hair done. Have spa days buy new clothes. With your poor judgment and act of revenge, everyone will have a lot less for the next year, at least. You are both sentenced to one month in the women's dungeon.