Page 6 of Arrested By My Mate

It’s fine.

Everything will be fine.

I take a deep breath, willing the tension in my shoulders to ease. The station is oddly quiet. The air smells faintly of coffee and cleaning supplies, and everything looks spotless, like it’s barely been used. How many arrests do they even make in a town this small?

I’m finally starting to calm down when the door swings open, and Sheriff Hottie Pants—I mean, Sheriff Tucker—walks back in.

Our eyes meet, and something about his expression makes my stomach flip. He looks conflicted, like he’s torn between duty and something else entirely.

I take a deep breath and push to my feet, squaring my shoulders.

Time for round two.

FOUR

Tucker

“Logan!”I shout as I round the corner into the fire station.

I saw Crew’s police cruiser out front so I know that he’s here too, and probably the rest of the guys.

Six heads poke out of the break room, and Crew comes running over to my side.

“What’s wrong?” He asks me urgently.

“I just made an arrest,” I start, and he frowns.

“You need back up or something?”

I can see the other guys looking me over for injuries, and I open my mouth, but no words come out.

Spit it out,my wolf barks, and I roll my eyes at him.

Stay out of it. You’re the reason that we’re in this mess.

He bares his teeth at me, and I push him down.

“I made a mistake,” I tell them right as our pack’s Alphas, Ryker and Griffin, come into the station.

“What’s going on?” Griffin asks.

“I messed up,” I admit and they both frown.

“What happened?” Crew asks me, sounding impatient and worried.

I get it. I don’t often make mistakes, and I never rush into a room anxiously like I just did.

“Calm down,” Logan says, taking control. He’s the fire chief for the station here in Twisted Oak and is always calm, cool, and collected.

“Yeah, man. It can’t be that bad,” Miles, the head EMT, agrees.

“I just arrested my fated mate,” I tell them, and all seven of them stare at me in shock and varying ranges of disbelief and horror.

“What?” Crew chokes out, and I nod.

“Why!?” Jensen shouts, and I wince.

“She’s human, and she was trying to leave me,” I say, trying to defend my actions.

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