Hot and Badgered (Honey Badger Chronicles, #1)

by Shelly Laurenston

“A local would be—owwww!” “Do not be big baby cub,” she ordered while she began digging in his flesh with sterilized metal instruments. Berg was gritting his teeth as she worked, waiting for this to be over, when the exam room door flew open. “What are you doing to my brother?” a female version of himself demanded. “I could hear him whimpering outside!” “Helping his big, dumb bear ass,” the doctor replied before she glanced back . . . and up. Her hands froze, and a small growl came from the back of her throat. “This is my sister. Britta.” Berg explained, knowing his sister’s size alone was making the cheetah nervous. Female grizzlies were the most feared among the shifters. Not only were they psychotically protective of those they considered family—blood or otherwise—they were, like the males, easily startled. One wrong move could lose a shifter an arm. Or a whole head. “And my sister is going to be calm now. Calm, because I’m fine.” The doctor seemed to accept that until a male mirror image of Berg also walked into the room and, after slamming the door, glared around without saying a word.

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