Meanwhile, at the packhouse, Ash McKenzie, Alpha's son, ran into his father's office to greet him. "Daddy," said Ash McKenzie while running into his dad's arm. "Hey, Ash. How's my boy," asked Alpha Gary? He picked him up and set him on his side waist and walked over to his desk to sit down. He moved Ash onto his right lap. "Did they find the lost girl," asked Ash McKenzie? "Son, that is not of your concern. But no, we are still working on it," said Alpha Gary worried that they had no more news on Esmeralda’s whereabouts. "That is so sad. I bet she is so afraid," Ash McKenzie commented. Then Alpha Gary followed, "She sure is my boy." Alpha Gary continued with his work, while Ash was keeping himself busy. Ash was playing with the little battleships he had in his hands on the Alph

