Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

by Shelly Laurenston

“It’s whom. ‘Report to whom?’ Not who.” It took Dee-Ann a few seconds to realize her six-year-old was correcting her grammar. She handled that with a smirk and a sharp, “Shut up.” “Dee!” Ric chastised, shocked. Malone, however, burst out laughing, unable to hold it in anymore. And Crushek just ate his cake. “It’s all right, Daddy,” Lizzy replied, pushing a plate toward her father. “She just knows I’m right.” Dee-Ann reached over and took the plate of cake Lizzy had cut for her father, knowing full well it would annoy the hell out of her. “I still say we drop her off at the pound,” Dee-Ann told her mate after a few bites of her cake. Again, just to annoy her child. “She’s still small. Someone will take her.” “Yeah,” Crush said around his own cake, “but they’ll only bring her back.” Lizzy narrowed her blue eyes on Crush and, staring at him, reached over and placed one pudgy forefinger on his cake plate. Then, without breaking eye contact, pulled the plate away from him. At that point, Malone ran from the room, her laughter filling the apartment. And Dee-Ann followed, because she couldn’t stop laughing either.

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