Cali's Dad

First introduced in Book 1: Ch 1 where he calls Cali to inform her they got a loan for her mother’s operation.

Approves of Alex being Cali’s boyfriend.

Nicknames Cali "Cali-poo".

Overhears her conversation with Xavier about mates and humans. Although is a human, knows about the supernatural

His name is Tom. Married to Orla

Meets Xavier in Book 1 at a dinner where Xavier cooks stir fry and uses him later as kitchen boy in Book 7: chapter 33 to make spaghetti

BOOK 7
(7-ch 55) Calls mentions her father had always been bad at lying

(7-ch 58) Tom has a cop friend named Chris he wants to ask about the MIB

(7-ch 95) Tom knows a security guard who worked at the Glenngreen house

BOOK 8
8-122 Tom refuses to ride on the back of werewolves because he hasn’t driven without a seatbelt in decades

BOOK 10
10-ch 29 Greyson has a vision where he states that coq au vin is his favorite dish

10-ch 58 Once in the pack house kitchen, Tom immediately starts chopping onions. When Cali tries to explain the concept of mates, he asks if it’s like Twilight and admits he was a Twidad and always thought that [Bella] would’ve been better off with Jacob. Cali then states Jacob was a werewolf too.

Tom starts to slice a block of cheese when Cali admits that she met Xavier online and Tom gets upset stating he always taught her ‘safety first’ and that it applied to locking your doors at night and using a blinker while driving as much as it applied to meeting people online. He learns that Cali almost sold her virginity to Xavier

10-ch 59 Cali states Tom uses his ‘You’re In Big Trouble’ voice that she has heard only a few times in her life as it means he is so overcome with rage that he enters a whole new dimension where everything comes out soft and calm. He finds out that the anonymous donor for Orla’s surgery is Xavier and that Lola had a spell cast on her to change her from a hybrid-werewolf to a human, but might now turn into a vampire. He is cutting onions again when he accidentally cuts the index finger of his left hand off

10-ch 60 Torin heals Tom’s finger

10-ch 64 When Tom learns of the due destini, he calls it the dude destiny

10-ch 66 Tom agrees to play along with werewolf Bachelorette stating that Cali’s situation reminds him of Ben’s season

10-ch 85 Tom is staying in Ravi’s old room and makes waffles and egg scramble with mushrooms he foraged

10-ch 88 Tom tells Cali that she should be carefree and having funs with her friends, be in school finishing college, thinking about her future, meeting new people, traveling and ding a semester in Italy, getting drunk on her birthdays

10-ch 91 Cali states her dad was honest, straightforward, and more than that - he was nice

10-ch 92 Tom tells Xavier that he was attacked and bitten by a werewolf in Minnesota. Now, he can smell the moment apple pies come out of the oven at Holly Ringer’s bakery which is over two miles away from his house and he can hear sounds he’s never been able to heart before.

10-ch 109 Tom is reading Barefoot Contessa cookbook

10-ch 118 Cali suspects Tom has a secret angry side he rarely channels; he comforts Cali with chicken soup and a recipe in Ina Garten’s book. In 10-ch 122 he brings the Ina Garten’s chicken soup for her

BOOK 11
11-ch 22 Cali states that Tom is at least 5 inches taller than Orla

11-ch 29 Tom tells Cali that she can stay and watch him cook like she did when she was a little girl. He states being in a relationship is just like cooking; sometimes it takes a little time for the sauce to com together

11-ch 30 Lola states Tom loves his pepper

11-ch 33 Tom leads some of the pack members in an amateur cooking class. He teaches them to curl their fingers when chopping onions so they don’t cut themselves no matter how fast the knife is and puts the chopped onions in a pan with butter to caramelize them. Which makes this a good base for a number of recipes. He then teaches them flambé.

Greyson offers Cali what Tom’s been cooking: chicken soup, three kinds of pasta, and fresh bread.

In Greyson’s vision of the barbecue before Cali and his wedding night, Tom is at the grill holding a spatula and wearing a ‘Kiss the Cook But Don’t Touch the Buns’ apron

11-ch 44 Artemis states that Tom talks to the pack members about wine reductions

11-ch 45 Charlie states that Tom is an amazing cook and should have his own Netflix show like Tom’s Homestyle Cooking or Cooking with Hart

11-ch 75 Tom plans for Thanksgiving dinner: heritage turkey with cranberry-citrus sauce and baked fennel stuffing

11-ch 94 Cali finds her dad on the porch knitting a hat for Torin

BOOK 12
12-ch 53 Tom tells Cali he’s cooking garlic Parmesan risotto and a chicken in the oven to pair it with, which he’s never made before.

BOOK 13
13-Ch 49 - Tom reveals to Cali in Ch 48 that he’s become a werewolf and that he recently tried steak tartare, his hip no longer bothers him, and that he doesn’t need reading glasses anymore. He also admits that he went to Xavier instead of Greyson about this and admits to Artemis and Orla.