Precious Gifts: Baby Makes Three, #3

By D.M. Turner

This Christian urban fantasy is #3 in the Baby Makes Three short story series.

There's nothing Kelly wants more than to have a child with Brett, but she knows the odds. When her worst fear comes to fruition, she doesn't know how Brett will react.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Dawn M. Turner
• Release date: Jan 18, 2017
• ISBN: 9781536542738

D.M. Turner

Dawn lives in the high desert of Southern Arizona with her husband of over 20 years and a variety of furry and feathered critters. She enjoys photography, crochet, scrapbooking, spinning her own yarn from wool and alpaca, beading and jewelry-making, and lots of reading. When not doing those things, she writes romance, romantic-suspense, women's fiction under the name Dawn M. Turner, and medieval and urban fantasy with a Christian worldview under the name D.M. Turner. She took first place in the Contemporary Romance category, as well as winning the Grand Prize, in the 2011 Writers on the Storm Category Five Writing Contest.

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Baby Makes Three:

#3  Precious Gifts

Brett & Kelly Mitchell

By D.M. Turner

Copyright 2015 by D.M. Turner

Cover designed by the author

Baby photo by sekundator of DPC

Gray wolf photo by Vera Kuttelvaserova of DPC

White wolf photo by Denis Pepin of DPC

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including photocopying, recording or any information retrieval or storage system without the prior written permission of the author.

Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE, (c) 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission.

This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents, and dialogue are products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Epilogue

Chapter 1

Behold, children are a gift of the LORD; the fruit of the womb is a reward. - Psalm 127:3

Mitchell Residence,

Campbell Wildlife Preserve

Outside Flagstaff, Arizona

Saturday, July 2, 2016

KELLY wiped fog from the bathroom mirror with a hand towel and studied her reflection. Restless nights and days spent pacing had taken a toll. She looked haggard. Easily twenty years older. No wonder Brett ignored her. It was a miracle he’d been polite, much less acknowledged her at all. Meals had been very quiet. Too quiet. And that had put her on edge more than pre-estrus already had. Sometimes she truly hated being a werewolf. Life probably would’ve been easier if she’d been born human. Though, to hear Tanya talk about that monthly thing human women endured, maybe not.

She sighed and threw on a bathrobe, cinching it at the waist. Normally, she wouldn’t give a second thought to walking around the house nude, but she didn’t want that kind of attention from her mate. Not yet anyway. It wouldn’t be fair to him to imply otherwise by her actions. She snorted. Then again, Brett might not even notice. He’d been far more interested in his latest research into the lives of people long dead than anything to do with her.

So help me, if he gives me one more trite, distracted, painfully polite response to a question, I’ll rip his throat out.

Okay, so maybe the threat was over-the-top, but not by much.

She padded into