Rancher's Deadly Risk. Rachel Lee

      “We’re working on them. Linc and I have both started.”

      “With what?” Gage asked.

      So she explained the bullying incident. Linc refused to let her skip over the phone call she had received. When they fell silent, having explained their plans for dealing with bullying, Gage’s face was dark.

      “So,” he said, looking at Les, “you thought it was a good idea to hang your teacher out on this?” He turned to Linc. “What about you?”

      Cassie spoke first. “Our main concern was not to get James Carney into more trouble. We were trying to protect him.”

      “So you get blamed for the detentions? You become the focus of this gang?”

      “I don’t like it,” Linc said bluntly. “In fact, it concerns me a whole lot, and more now than it did on Friday. The fact remains, the Carney boy wasn’t the only one bullied. Cassie was bullied, too. So it seemed we needed to deal with that immediately, without getting Carney into more trouble. We can’t have students making implied threats by pushing teachers and ignoring them or we’ll have anarchy, and we won’t be able to control anything.”