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The college kids from Wisconsin have been diligent in their punishments. They really put in the time to even work with CPD Motor Division. They were a huge help according to the cops there and they said the guys in charge taught them a lot as well and it was fun. I was glad they were learning and taking their penance seriously.

I was even happier when the cops talked to the press about it, saying they were good kids who made a stupid mistake but truly regretted it. They just wanted to feel more human and not have to worry about being a wolf every second of every day and feel normal. Which made them just like any other teenager, and people needed to start seeing that.

It wasn’t part of the deal, but I learned that the cop in charge called the judge and DA in Wisconsin and laid it all out. He said he’d take a weekend and go work with the kids to help the local police get some needed work on their vehicles for their community service if their people promised to not hassle the wolves.

I approved it all and Hestia promised she’d handle it. That she had actually had a few conversations with the police there now and it was a bridge being built instead of the disaster it had been.

Always nice to hear.

It’s also clear that this is the job for Ashley. She isthrivinghandling so much for the pack. She is so excited to work with Tasha Perez in her new role that it’s actually adorable to watch.

There’s a lot of good on the horizon. A lot.

I just need to keep holding onto that and seeing it. I have to.

People need me to.

Things at work are much better too now that the Chicago office has been overhauled. We’re glowing in DC about how well it all went and we’re thriving as well. I’m sad to see Perez go, but he’ll be located in Chicago now out of the training center… In like five years once all the other offices are overhauled.

I laughed at the five years estimate. The FBI doesn’t do anything that fast. The division chiefs have started a betting pool for how long it will really take.

Yes, I was the instigator of that one. I’m sure Galvin will smack me when he learns of it.

I’m not wrong though.

Speaking of Galvin, he’s doing better too now that he’s got his kids back. He’s coming to visit as Scott, mostly because he wants to deprogram his daughter and let her see how wrong her mother was about a lot. Like alot.

The former Mrs. Galvin is still in serious shit. Her family stepped in once everything blew up with the First Lady. She stepped out of jail from the judge throwing her in there and was whisked off to an unknown location for treatment for her mental breakdown. I hope she really is getting help instead of a blow-off punishment.

Because the bitch be nuts. For real.

On the topic of women who were nuts—but actually the good kind now—Agent Cindy Fisher was killing it. She was doing the extras I wanted her to. Her hair and makeup were different. She was working through more training for going undercover and even acting classes. I had her covering shifts at different businesses so she could hone her skills.

It sounds silly, but she was learning a lot. Mostly how to be nosy and take everything in—the best quality someone undercover needed.

Hell, she found out so much when working for a weekend as a flower delivery driver that we had to report three people to the police.

She was learning all kinds of skills like how to manage situations and smooth things over that could get you killed undercover. The FBI didn’t teach many customer service techniques and were more battering ram, but those skills were needed to be a smooth operator.

And they could keep her alive when backup was a few minutes out.

I’m definitely a proud big sister. She’s going to be better than I was and people are joking that I’m going to get jealous.

No. No, I am not because it’s not a competition. It’s a job to save lives, and Ihopeshe saves more than I did. I fucking pray that she closes more cases and gets more bad guys than I did.

You know why?

It’s. Not. A . Fucking. Game.

People might be keeping score, but this isn’t a game and it’s people’s lives.

It also means I’m doing a great job as her boss. It means the FBI has learned and is doing better to support our people than they did me. It means the world will be safer.

Fuck the numbers and who closed more cases or arrested people. Let’s just all do better and breathe easier.

Someone doing better than I would have thought and was surprising was the new president. Enzo sent me a recording of someone talking about demoting shifters to drug-sniffing dogs and putting us on the border to eat illegals and the president not only shut it down but fired the guy.

But first, he laid into the others on his staff and aides that this shit stopped. We were citizens and not aliens that invaded. He was tired of the rhetoric. He had some concerns about the safety of us around humans and took it as a good sign we wereletting him see behind the curtain to get better educated. He suggested they do the same before he got really upset.

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