Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

by Shelly Laurenston

Had she lost her mind? She couldn’t be that clueless to the shifter life, could she? Then again, he and Dag had gotten in the middle of a badger fight—so who was he to talk? “Hey! Hey! Gentlemen!” She looked at both of them. “Stop it right now!” With her arms still outstretched, she pointed one finger at Berg. “And I don’t need you to protect me from big, slow-moving assholes.” “I’m not slow,” Clark said. And when they stared at him, he added, “Mind or body . . . owwwww!” Eyes wide, he stared at Charlie. “I think her claws are getting longer.” “They’re totally getting longer,” she said with no obvious sense of urgency. “In fact, they can get so long that they can sever your spine in at least ten places.” She stepped in close to Clark, gazing up at him without any fear. “Because me and my sister are mutts and that’s what we do. We are freaks of nature and we can erase you. So be nice to us . . . or I’ll show you exactly what I can do to you.” She stepped around him, stopping by his side, and adding, “And you won’t even have time to scream.” Moving away from the stunned polar, she barked, “Let him go, Stevie!” Stevie suddenly hit the ground, her ridiculously long claws covered in blood and gore. The poor girl was panting and sweating and completely freaked out.

o0