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A few months later

“Enough! I can’t take any more,” I gasp through tears of laughter as Beans does a weird little dance that I’ve seen Jake do sometimes when he’s happy about something. It’s so cute in his raccoon form that I’ve started laughing and can’t stop, which is making me worry I might pee my pants.

He ceases with a little chuff, and a moment later, Jake shifts back to his hybrid form, a huge grin across his face. “Feeling any better?” he asks, slipping on the pair of joggers he’d discarded on the floor right before Beans’s impromptu performance.

I wipe the moisture from cheeks, smiling back at him. “Much. You should do that at the town talent show.”

He snorts and wraps a hand around my waist, pulling me closer. “Nah, that dance is just for you.”

“Wow, I feel so special.” I giggle and melt into his hug, loving the way his soft bulk feels against me.

“You are. Though, now that I’m thinking about it, I’ll show it to a select few other than you,” he murmurs, sliding a hand between us to rest on my low belly.

I’m barely showing, and we haven’t told anyone yet, but soon it’ll be hard to hide the fact that I’m pregnant. After all, he managed to put not one baby in me, but three. I’m having triplets. Guess all that daydreaming about how cute the wolf shifter triplets would’ve been as babies has come back to bite me in the ass.

I smile against his shoulder, love and nerves surging inside me. “I think they’ll like that.” How could they not? Jake is going to be the best, most ridiculous dad in the universe, and I can’t wait.