Page 53 of Her Shifter Babe

Tommy wheeled an extra suitcase we’d needed to pack everything out of the room and offered me a brotherly nod.

“It’s strange... this has been home for so long,” Stacey said, glancing back.

I put my arm around my brave, beautiful woman. “Let’s go home, for real.”

We had a surprise for Stacey, and I couldn’t wait to show her. We took the baby to the car, the new family SUV that Tommy had bought, and jumped in. Me in the passenger seat, Tommy driving, and Stacey in the back with the baby.

“You ready to see your new house?” I asked, grinning at our mate as I turned around in my seat.

Tommy started the car and drove toward Nancy’s, Wade’s, and Tanner’s place.

Stacey frowned at me in confusion. “Um, what new house?”

“You’ll see,” I said and turned back around to face the front.

“You guys bought a new house, and you didn’t tell me?” she asked, sounding shocked.

I shrugged. “If you don’t like it, we’ll buy another.”

And we would. There was always a need for good rentals in an area like this and if she didn’t want this home, we’d find a way to make her happy. That was our new goal in life, after all. The happiness of our girls, our family.

We turned into our new street and drove past our cousins’ place.

“Hey! That’s Nancy’s house,” Stacey said, excitement clear in her sweet voice.

Tommy pulled into our new driveway. “And this is our new home. We thought that you’d want to be near Nancy, and this place has five bedrooms. It needs a lot of design work and renovations done, but we figured, you’d want to do all of that. It might even be a bit of fun, a project to attack bit by bit as the baby grows.”

We got out of the car, and I scooped Maggie up out of her car seat and wrapped her in a blanket. “Come on, baby. Let’s show Mommy the new house.”

Tommy took Stacey to the front door and handed her the keys with a grin on his face. “We haven’t even opened it up yet, we’ve been waiting for you.”

There were tears in our mate’s eyes as she beheld the home we’d chosen for her. “Guys, this is too much.”

I laughed. “No, it’s not. But I’m afraid we can’t stay here tonight because it’s not ready. We still have the town house, of course, though, and we can move in here as soon as you’re happy with it.”

Stacey wiped away the few tears that spilled down her cheeks, slid the key into the lock, and opened the grand front door.

Tommy grabbed her up in his arms and carried her over the threshold.

Stacey squealed in delight, her eyes wide. This was her happily ever after movie moment and she deserved to revel in every second of it.

Tommy finally put her down in the large formal living room and stepped back to allow her to drink it all in.

She turned in a slow circle, her expression one of awe. “Oh my,” She whispered as she walked around the room, staring at the forest green walls and crown moldings. “It’s so beautiful. There is definitely a lot to work with here.”

Tommy and I shared a knowing grin. “We’ve been hoping you’d like it.”

She nodded and made ridiculously cute happy noises. “I can’t believe you actually bought this for us!”

“Come upstairs,” Tommy said, taking her hand and leading her up the double stairwell. “It’s structurally sound, of course, we had the engineers in to check on everything before we bought it. But I think you’ll need to use your interior design skills on every room because everything’s very outdated. The bathrooms are pink. The kitchen is green...”

Their voices faded off as they went down the hallway upstairs to investigate the bedroom situation and no doubt discuss Stacey’s interior design opinions. The master bedroom here was small, but the engineers had already said we could safely knock down a wall into the second bedroom and make a huge master to cater to our needs as a throuple.

“Let’s leave them to it and go see the backyard,” I told Maggie, making sure her blanket was wrapped tightly around her. She was sleeping in my arms peacefully, oblivious to everything going on around her. I’d never seen a child look more like an angel than my own daughter. She was what dreams were made of.

I walked her into the huge, presently ugly kitchen and opened the back door. There, on the broken patio, I sat down with Maggie and looked out over the yard as I told her stories of all the things we were going to do together once we settled in. I was going to get her a swimming pool, string up a tree swing, and we’d have parties all year round—just because. I’d get our handy cousins to build her a tree house to climb, and an amazing sand pit to play in too.

She’d be surrounded by cousins her own age, and have a huge, protective wolfy family of shifters there for her every step of the way. Our beautiful Margaret Rose would grow up knowing she was loved beyond measure. No matter what life threw at us now; we were ready for it and the worst of it was behind us. As a pack, we were strong, and Stacey and Maggie were its newest members.

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