Chapter 14

“I’m sorry! I didn’t mean to do it!”

Dean Jr. wailed as he clung to his mother’s knees, naked as the day he was born. Phoenix patted the cub on his head, pacing as the doctors looked his mate over.

“I know, baby. It’s okay. The nice lady will wake up real soon,” Violet Romero, the cub’s mother, cooed in a pleasing voice.

Unfortunately, the boy’s father, Dean Romero, Neta of the Island Stripe Pride, was not as easily appeased. He growled at Phoenix with the force of his beast, irritating the fuck out of his inner Dire Wolf.

“A human? You brought a human here? What the fudge, man,” he spat the non-curse word with as much ferocity as if he’d dropped the f-bomb in front of his son.

“I am sorry. I expected to have told her by now. NO disrespect intended, Mr. Romero. And, yes, Tracey is a normal, just as your Nari once was.”

Phoenix tried reasoning with the man. After all, Violet was a human before she’d been claimed by the Tiger king.