Chasing The Night: Big Easy Shifters: Book Three by Knox, Abby (best novels to read for students TXT) 📗

for a car, and Ash and Rosemary met them at the hospital.

On the way there, Gavin had made a series of phone calls about the secret project he was working on. Chastity had been concentrating on her breathing.

A few short hours later, a beautiful, brown-eyed 10-pound baby boy was born.

“Oh my God,” Chastity said when she saw him. “He looks just like you, Gavin. He’s the most beautiful boy I’ve ever seen in my life!”

Chastity bawled and cried and nuzzled the little man until she was brought home from the hospital.

At first, she didn’t realize they were not at the apartment when the car stopped.

They were at the new house, and it was finished.

“What the…? Why are we stopping here? I have to get some rest in my own bed, like immediately, Gavin.”

“And you will. Your bed is already here, my love.”

“What?”

The entire pack was already there to greet Gavin, Chastity, and baby Baxter as they arrived at their newly completed, freshly furnished home.

Gavin followed his wife’s surprised and confused gaze as they walked up the wide front porch steps, where Cory, Ash, Rosemary, the Boudreaux children, Vann, Gigi, Bobby, Pen, and everyone’s dogs were waiting for them. The porch was loaded with elaborately decorated baby gift bags, and the friends all exchanged hugs and happy tears with the shocked new mommy.

The huge group of friends followed the little family as they crossed into the broad foyer. The visitors immediately began scoping out the house and snooping around the expansive kitchen. But Chastity skipped over all of that and went straight to her new bedroom. As soon as she saw her bed, she handed the sleeping Baxter to Gavin and gingerly crept onto the bed. In seconds she was asleep.

Gavin held Baxter to his chest and sat down in the rocking chair to watch over his wife as she slept.

Cory crawled up onto the bed next to her mom and snuggled in next to her.

GiGi and Vann padded off to the kitchen to fix everybody something to eat and to stock the kitchen with a load of surprise groceries.

Ash and Rosemary went off to explore the rest of the house with the kids. Bobby and Pen hung art on the walls that they had gifted them from Penny’s design studio.

Gavin sighed and let his eyes close while baby Baxter slept on his chest. The entire pack was here and had expanded beyond his dreams. He was so glad he’d decided to chase those dreams down.

THE END

About the Author

Abby Knox lives a dual life. Fantasy Abby would love to live on a farm with goats, bees, chickens, donkeys and alpaca, making her own soap, yarn, honey and cheese. Reality Abby has no desire to do actual farm work. So, the ever-pragmatic Reality Abby keeps Fantasy Abby happy by putting her into adorable little works of romantic fiction with her pretend hobbies. Both Abbies hope you enjoy her sweet, sexy — sometimes a little over the top and weird — storytelling.

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Maid for the Billionaire

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His Vinyl Vixen

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Fencing Her In

Doing Him Good

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Benefactor (book three)

Headmistress (book four)

Queen Bee (book five)

Bake Sale Queen (book six)

An excerpt from Running With The Pack (part 4 of the Big Easy Shifter series)

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Bobby watched in surprise as Pen flounced—there was no other way she could have moved in that giant, hoop-skirted, over-the-top bridesmaid dress other than to flounce—over to his table and asked, “Why didn’t you ask me to dance?”

Confused, he replied, “Excuse me?” Pen’s chest flushed. She was nervous. Her energy made the hairs on his arm stand on end. His inner beast told him he’d wasted enough time—on this day and every other day of their adult lives—thinking about making a move, and yet his human self still considered himself not good enough. The wolf in him was about to win. The wolf had had enough of will-they, won’t they; it only wanted to grab Pen and get to boning. Right away.

Instead, Bobby let her continue saying what she had to say.

“You know that I love that song more than I love most people on this earth, and yet here you are. Sulking.”

“I ain’t sulking, I’m brooding, Pen,” he said with a sulk.

Pen huffed and rolled her eyes. “I was trapped in the corner listening to that blond haircut yammer on about speedboat engines, for fuck’s sake. I was throwing up the bat signal like my life depended on it—for my best friend to come over with some fake emergency—where were you?”

Bobby snorted. “I don’t know, you looked like you were having a pretty good time without me. Besides, I was talking to Lionel, and I thought he was gonna kick my ass for the way we nabbed him this morning to get him to the ceremony.”

She glared and crossed her arms. She wasn’t buying it. Holy shit, she was sexy when she was mad at him. Her eyes flashed and her ears were red. He really wanted to grab her shoulders and suck those hot little earlobes.

“I don’t know what is up your ass, but you