Are you really coming at me?” “Lady, I’m trying to be nice to you. But I wouldn’t push your luck with me.” “You? Tiny little hybrid freak? What are you going to do?” “Morally reprehensible things that most good people would be appalled by.

I want to awkwardly hug you.

No. Let’s just get back upstairs and – ” “There’s a Starbucks.” “Ooh.” Charlie stepped past the doorway. “Coffee.

Bear put his hand over his heart. “I just feel that something horrible has happened to a book somewhere that has my ancestors crying out in horror and pure pain.” Ski.

In fact, his adult brain acted like his adolescent brain used to. It stopped functioning. All it wanted to do was wrap itself around the owner of that scent and purr. The cat in him wanted to stretch out his body and rub his face into that scent. He’d been right. She was here.

He was thinking of Max MacKilligan as his girlfriend? The crazy female who’d decimated an entire team of well-trained mercenaries with her badger teammates? Or who didn’t seem too concerned that he’d almost eaten a child? That woman he was thinking of as his girlfriend?

As my daddy would say, time to start the killin.

You got pulled over on the Autobahn?

Unfortunately,” she admitted. “MacKilligans aren’t allowed in Siberia. There was an incident.” “With the bears?” “Oh, no.” She placed her head on his shoulder, snuggling close, before admitting, “Not with the bears. With everybody.

Your sense of humor is not for everyone, but I have to say it’s growing on me. Like an out-of-control fungus.