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Misty

Sheriff Misty Dale was pretty tired of getting yelled at by people who needed her help

“Ma’a to happen if your son gets caught doing anything else illegal”

“You get offus! You arrest my Zeke every other day—”

“No one’s been arrested, ma’am,” Misty repeated for the twentieth time “Your son and his friend were just detained We’re dropping hiht a warning would serve them better than a juvenile record”

She bit her lip, too late Sarcash, the woman was off on yet another furious rant

Zeke, ainst the porch railing Misty wanted to shake him

You little idiot, I’ you a favor Your dad’s in jail, you want to end up the same way?

Zeke and Ryder were both the sons of newly-convicted felons—Zeke’s dad, Ryan, had led the local wolf shifter pack, and Ryder’s dad had been a s, and Misty had caught them in a violent attack on another shifter residence a few o

The case had been airtight, and none of those wolves were seeing the outside of a prison anyti to grow up to be just as much trouble

The proble

Misty had always been pretty good at putting bad guys away Keeping the troubled kids frouys? That was outside of her skill set

“Have a good day,up soe

She turned back to her deputy, Gene, as too polite and venerable to s off a pretty a”

“You got it, boss,” he said, and they got into their Jeep and pulled away

Diane was still yelling as they left And, looking in the rear-viewcar the finger

She blew out her breath in a sigh “Gene, you got any advice on how to handle this situation before it stops being funny?”

Gene shook his head, tapping wrinkled fingers on the“Those kids are wolves to the bone, boss You think you can tough-love the”

Misty shot hi, Gene”

He shrugged “That I do But that don’t change how things are around here How they’ve always been”

Misty ground her teeth There was no use reciting her lecture on pack dynaain He’d heard it, and he wasn’t about to change his mind

She couldn’t stay silent, though “There’s got to be a better way”

Gene just shook his head