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the quarry of a lifetime!”
    “We didn’t miss him, to be fair.”
    “Right, right, let me correct myself,” Petunia said, feigning humility with sarcasm dripping from her tongue with every syllable. “I don’t know what you were doing, and I don’t care. You ruined my plans and now you’re—”
    He cut Petunia off, which took a considerable amount of courage. “It was his girl we had,” Jimmy said. As an additional testament to his nerve, he actually looked Petunia in the face when he said it. “We thought we had her but he took us from behind. I think we killed her, but now she’s back.”
    Petunia had a strong feeling that the werewolf was lying, but about which part, she wasn’t sure. It didn’t much matter either, as she had some information that didn’t make a whole lot of sense. “How can you have killed her and then see her alive again?” she had taken a turn, and was pacing in a highly Napoleonic style, back down the table to the other end. She stuck a hand in the habitually open button of her shirt, further invoking the tyrant’s mode.
    The werewolf had opened his mouth, no doubt to explain in great detail some completely absurd idea about how it happened, but babble as he might, Petunia wasn’t paying him the first bit of mind. She was running through a laundry list of reasons it could happen aloud. She talked about the three sorts of resurrection—magical, scientific, and self-imposed—and how each of those could have possible taken place. In the end though, she wasn’t convinced.
    “I thought you said his mate was a werewolf? If that’s the case, how could you have killed her? None of you have the right tools. I made sure you didn’t because I know you’re too stupid to control your emotions and actually capture Danniken instead of killing him if you had the chance.”
    Aside from her grammatical pickiness, Petunia was also a meticulous planner to an almost comical degree. She had contingencies upon contingencies, sub-plots and side-plots. For every idea she had, she made four extra plans to make sure nothing went awry.
    “What I mean is,” Jimmy said, “she was just a girl. I don’t know, I guess maybe he changed her?”
    At that, Petunia arched her eyebrows again. “That’s... completely and totally illegal,” she said. “Changing a human to save a life? Oh my goodness, Danniken, you’re making this easy aren’t you? God, how could you be so stupid ? How could you actually think you’d get away with turning a human? Then again, Erik was dumb enough to mate himself to a human... maybe Danniken wolves are just, you know, stupid.”
    “I don’t think,” Jimmy started, but when he realized he wasn’t being listened to at all, he decided to play with a lump of lint he plucked out of his vest pocket instead.
    “No,” she said, even though she hadn’t really been listening, “you don’t. But I do, and I know how dangerous this is. I know how stupid it is for the alpha’s brother to break shifter law. Especially with all the politics he’s been playing lately, what with going nationwide with the shifter coalition and all that...”
    She took the hand out of her shirt and tapped her teeth with her fingernails. Then, she grabbed her silver dentures from the cup where they sat, and picked at one of the front teeth until it came out of the fixture. She didn’t really use those anyway, she was more of a back-of-the-mouth chewer. “You’re gonna take this, yes it’s another tooth, don’t talk.”
    Chastened, the biker wolf just nodded and stuck the tooth in the pocket. “You’re gonna catch him, and you’re gonna give him the tooth. It matches the one you stuck in his boot. You did manage that, right?”
    “Yes ma’am,” he said. He was about to keep going, but she cut him off.
    “Good. Then you’re going to offer him terms. I don’t even need to hurt him now. And imagine if I can catch both of them. Erik Danniken will be groveling at my feet to let his brother