Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

by Shelly Laurenston

Ignoring the excruciating pain in her shoulder, Charlie quickly put her glasses back on before she bent down and, with oven mitts on, pulled the lemon custard pie out of the oven and placed it on the counter to cool. She smiled at its perfection. “Bear in the kitchen,” Max said and Charlie turned around expecting to see the Dunn brothers behind her. But no. It was that dog. “He’s going to eat my pie, isn’t he?” she asked Max. “If you leave it on that counter, he will.” Charlie moved the pie to the open window, pretty sure the dog couldn’t lean that far over to reach it. But that’s when Max reminded her, “You’re gonna attract bears again.” “Dammit!” Holding the pie in her hands, she studied the kitchen. Max looked up from the newspaper she was weirdly reading. Weirdly, because it was an actual newspaper. Made of actual paper. Charlie had only seen her use her phone the last ten years to read anything. Books. Magazines. Anything. Charlie didn’t even know where her sister had found a newspaper. “You could just get rid of the dog,” Max said. “I’m not killing a dog.”

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