Hot and Badgered by Shelly Laurenston

Author:Shelly Laurenston [Laurenston, Shelly]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kensington
Published: 2018-02-02T05:00:00+00:00

chapter FOURTEEN

Cringing, Britta reached down and grabbed the honey badger’s arm. She pulled Max to her feet.

“We should stop this,” Britta said again.

“I’m okay.”

“We haven’t even touched you yet,” Britta explained. “You can’t skate even when no one is on you.”

“Looks that way, doesn’t it?”

The Marauder skated over to them. Stopped. “What?” Novikov asked.

Britta decided to step in. “She’s done.”

“We’ve barely started.”

“And yet she’s bleeding profusely.”

Novikov frowned. “You’re not even on the team. You’re a practice player.”

Britta skated in front of Novikov. “Your point?”

“My point is this has nothing to do with you.”

“She’s a friend. I’m helping her.”

Max tapped her on the arm. “We’re friends?” she asked.

“Quiet, tiny female.”

“She’s fine,” he insisted.

“She’s not fine. She can’t skate.”

“She can learn.”

Reece Lee Reed—a wolf from the Smith Pack—skated around the trio and asked, “So are we practicing today? Or just gabbin’ like girlfriends?”

Without taking his eyes off Britta, Novikov swung out his fist, sending poor Reece flying across the ice and into the opposite wall.

“Woooooow,” Max softly let out.

“We cannot teach her to skate well enough to play hockey at the pro level. It’s not possible. It’s not like it’s full-human hockey with those tiny little guys playing. Not one sow among them. This is just setting her up to get killed.”

“You’re annoying me.”

“I’m sorry my rational logic goes against your hysterical plans to use a woman like a mad dog.”

“I’m actually a honey badger.”

“Shut. Up,” Britta snarled.

And Max did, for a little bit. But then, while Britta and Novikov bickered, she abruptly moved between the pair and held up one leg to Novikov. “Get this skate off.”

Without realizing what he was doing—he was so busy trying to rationalize his crazy scheme—Novikov quickly untied the skate. Then he untied the other when Max lifted it up. Once she had the skates off, she started walking off the ice, pulling off first her hockey shirt, then her elbow pads. Then her shoulder pads. When she dropped the shoulder pads to the ice, the small female suddenly took off.

Catching the move, Britta and Novikov stopped arguing and turned to watch.

Max charged across the ice toward the stairs that led to the bleachers.

“Uh-oh,” Britta muttered when she realized that Coop’s big sister was standing in those bleachers, talking to some lion. Her back was to Max, so she had no idea the crazed honey badger was headed right for her.

Britta started to skate over there, hoping to stop what she saw as the possible slaughter of Coop’s sister. True, Toni Jean-Louis Parker got on her last nerve, but Britta didn’t want her hurt either.

But before she could even get down the entire length of the rink, Max suddenly turned toward the protective glass wall that kept the audience safe from the play. Using her claws, she scrambled up and over. Once she touched down, she ran on the bleachers toward where Toni was standing. When she was about four bleachers or so below her, the badger launched herself up and over . . . and into the lion.

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