Ruffled Feathers

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>I wasn't known for overthinking problems. I was an ask for forgiveness and not permission kind of person.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>So when I got caught with a cock in my sweatshirt after a police raid on a cockfighting ring it looked bad. Surely they'd know I was trying to rescue the half-dead rooster right?</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Unfortunately there was only one person who could bail me out of this situation and it was my stepbrother's best friend Truett Heathstone. Which meant he'd tell my stepbrother-who I had a wildly inappropriate crush on- who'd then be obligated to tell my dad and then everyone would find out I was running an unregistered animal rescue out of my stepmother's multi-million dollar mansion.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>And that I'd kind of adopted a homeless man and his service dog.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But that was me. Otillie-James Baler the town screw-up.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An Unshown in a family of Alphas and Omegas. The black sheep of polite society. In love with my step-brother and his best friend but never able to be part of their Pack.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Otillie-James Baler who was never quite good enough.</span></p><p></p><p></p>