Chapter: Roaming Shadows

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The fresh smell of baked apples was one of Anabelle favorite smells, not because she loved anything that was apple baked goods, but because the warm apples smell made her feel warm and fuzzy inside.

The sound of plastic hitting on plastic got Anabelle to turn away from slicing into the apple crumble that she would make for the bakery glass case. Her eyes looked down at Nolan in one of those baby walkers, where he sat in the seat and pushed with his feet to wheel himself around the room. He was shaking a set of plastic keys, but he was looking up at her with a smile, his two bottom teeth being showcased.

"You are too cute." Anabelle bent down to press her lips on top of Nolan's head causing a squeal of delight to escape him.

Anabelle turned back to the apples, finishing up with slicing them and putting them into a bowl, where she mixed the rest of the ingredients into the apples. Soon, a pan was being slid into the oven where the apple crumble would bake for a bit until put out to serve.

Once the area she cleaned was all set, her hands were washed, Anabelle picked Nolan up. She pressed her lips against his cheek, smiling as Nolan let out a happy gurgle. His arms waved around and his hands ran across her face. Anabelle held Nolan close to her chest, walking out front to check out how services were going. She smiled at the customers who cooed over Nolan, who was smiling and wiggling around in her arms.

Past noontime, Anabelle smiled when Chibs appeared through the backdoor of the bakery. Nolan wiggled more in her arms, stretching out his body and reaching for Chibs. Chibs smiled and took Nolan into his arms, holding the little one close.

"Look at you, lad. Ya are moving around a lot. Might be walking soon, eh?" Chibs said, bouncing Nolan in his arms a bit.

"How has your day been going?" Anabelle asked Chibs as she walked to her office with Chibs closely behind her.

"Everything has been calm." Chibs answered.

"Calm before the storm?" Anabelle asked, having a feeling there was something more Chibs need to say to her.

Anabelle knew Chibs wanted to get back at the Razors. He wanted to find them, and put an end to their antics once and for all. Since the night of Chibs and she had been trailed, Chibs had been trying to figure out what to do to put a stop to the Razors. Annabelle sure as hell knew for a fact Chibs would go after them head on if he wanted to, but he stood back to plan before he took action with the rest of the Sons.

"Ya could say that." Chibs gave her a grin, sitting himself down in a seat in front of her desk.

With Chibs in a seat with Nolan in his lap, Anabelle moved around her desk to sit down behind it. There was a thick hardcover sketchbook in the middle of her desk with tiny sticky notes that stuck out of the pages. She flipped to one of the pages, where a page had various sketches across it with notes all over the page. Someone requested for a bunch of cupcakes of various flavors and toppings. The occasion for this cupcakes was for someone's retirement party, and there were a lot of people who enjoyed Anabelle's bakery goods.

A squeal and than a belly laughter made Anabelle to look up. She could not help but laugh as Chibs was leaning his face close to Nolan with a funny face which would make Nolan to go wide eyes, but then laugh when Chibs leaned away. Nolan would reach out to grab the sides of Chibs face and smile.

"Cute boys."

Chibs shot her a smile at her comment. He looked back at Nolan, but Chibs reached for the package filled with baby wipes. With a young one, there were certain items that were everywhere in the house or the bakery for them to be able to grab and use. Baby wipes was one of these items. Chibs pulled out a baby wipe out of the container and wiped Nolan's chin as Nolan drooled excessively. Nolan made a face, which made Anabelle and Chibs to laugh.

Nolan pushed Chibs hands away and tried to turn his body away, but Chibs had a good hold on Nolan. There had been uncontrollable drool from Nolan because his baby teeth were emerging from his gums. The past few days have been exhausting for Chibs and Anabelle with trying to keep Nolan comfortable with ice cold teething rings or any other teething items.

"Let me go get one of his teething rings. I had stuck one in the freezer." Anabelle said, standing up from her seat to leave the office.

Chibs threw the baby wipe away while he held Nolan close. He looked down to Nolan, who was gripping the lapels of Chibs kutte. Chibs got a small grin upon his lips as Nolan looked up at him with wide hazel green eyes. Chibs bent his head down to press his lips on top of Nolan's head, which earned a happy sound to escape from Nolan.

A hand upon Chibs shoulder made him to glance up and accept the frozen teething ring from Anabelle. He gave it to Nolan, who immediately clenched the teething ring in his hands and started to gnaw on the frozen ring. Chibs watched Nolan for a few more moments before he brought his eyes up to Anabelle, watching her sit back down behind her desk to resume work.

"Will you be busy for the rest of the day?"

"I will be more so tomorrow than today. I need to make these cupcakes tomorrow." Anabelle pointed the pencil in her hand down at the sketchbook with cupcake ideas.

"Hmm, a cupcake sounds good right about now. Come on, little man, let's go find a cupcake." Chibs stood up from the seat with Nolan.

Nolan almost dropped the teething ring, but Chibs reacted quickly to catch the teething ring covered with drool. He made a face for a split second before he handed Nolan the teething ring, which Nolan resume to gnaw on it.

Anabelle shook her head with a grin upon her lips as Chibs talked to Nolan about the types of cupcakes they need to try. She looked back down at her work, continuing to do her work but at the same time, getting a brief thought about how good of a father Chibs was to their sons, Nolan and Neil.

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Her head was tucked almost underneath Chibs chin. The two were tangled up in bed, the blankets twisted around their forms as they slept. Although the two woke up as the baby monitor on Chibs nightstand began to go off.

Anabelle opened her eyes and lifted her head up, letting her eyes flicker to Chibs before her eyes move over to the baby monitor. The sound of Nolan chatting away to himself made her to grin and she laid her head back down on Chibs chest. She felt Chibs move his hand up and down on her back. Her eyes moved up to see him tiredly stare back at her.

"He stayed up all day without a nap, and he gets up now."

"He's your son, of course he is going to be energetic." Anabelle mumbled against Chibs chest, soon chuckling as he gave her a swift pinch to her behind.

She pressed her lips against his chest before she shut her eyes, continuing to listen to the baby monitor.

"I will get up if he continues." Anabelle mumbled against Chibs chest.

"Nah, I will." Chibs mumbled with his eyes closed.

In a couple of minutes, Nolan quieted down and did not make a peep. With him going quiet, both Anabelle and Chibs waited a few moments before one of them got up to check on Nolan. Anabelle managed to get out of the bed quicker than Chibs and walked out of their bedroom to go down the hallway a little to enter Nolan's bedroom.

Anabelle walked into the nightlight lit room, walking straight over to the crib where Nolan slept on his back with his hands curled up in fists on either side of his head. She was staring at him a few moments to see him breathing normally. Knowing Nolan was okay, Anabelle stepped back from the crib to leave the bedroom.

Though something in her peripheral vision to the right made her to turn her head to stare at the two windows. It was then a shadow gone past the window that made her to freak out. Her heart raced and she grabbed Nolan out of his crib quickly, yet quietly.

Anabelle moved fast to the master bedroom.

"Filip!" She hissed.

"What?" Chibs mumbled from his spot.

"Someone is outside."

"What!" Chibs shot up, wide awake now.

"They had gone past Nolan's bedroom window. I need to get Neil." Anabelle said as she was about to leave the bedroom.

"I will get Neil, you stay in here with Nolan." Chibs told her as he pulled on sweatpants and walked to his dresser where the gun lockbox was.

Chibs opened up the lockbox and handed Anabelle her handgun. He took Nolan and laid the now awaken toddler on the bed, wedging pillows on either side of Nolan for him to not roll over.

Chibs grabbed his handgun and gone to step out of the bedroom, but turned back to stare at Anabelle.

"Call Happy." Chibs said.

"Okay." Anabelle nodded.

Anabelle picked up her smartphone from the nightstand while Chibs left the bedroom. She text message Tig and called Happy. A couple seconds later, Neil came into the bedroom and stared at her with a bit of fear, not knowing who was outside their house and why. Anabelle made Neil sit on the bed with Nolan and to keep his little brother occupied.

Anabelle stood in the doorway of the bedroom, listening to Chibs go around the whole house. She listened to the phone dial and than Happy picked up.

"What is wrong, mama?" Happy said immediately.

"I saw someone outside the house. Chibs told me to call you."

"I am on my way." Happy said, hanging up.

The sound of footsteps made her to look down the hallway at Chibs.

"Am I imaging things?"

"No, there's someone out there."

"Did you see them?"

Chibs nodded as he clenched his handgun in his right hand and he ran his left hand through his hair.

"They are circling the house again. I don't know if there is one or more. Did you call Happy?"

"Yes, and I texted Tig to get here because someone unknown is circling the house."

"The boys?" Chibs whispered as his eyes flickered to the doorway.

With a peek inside the master bedroom, Anabelle saw that Neil held Nolan in his arms now. Nolan was sleeping again, and Neil was wide awake.

"Nolan is asleep. Neil is on alert." Anabelle turned her head and whispered to Chibs.

"Shit. Shit. Shit. It has to be the fucking Razors." Chibs growled as he turned away from Anabelle and shook his head.

Anabelle knew Chibs beats himself up whenever his personal family gets involve with the Sons work. She walked up from behind him and rested her head against his back before she placed her chin on his left shoulder.

"You will figure out how to deal with them. For now, we worry about who the fuck is circling our home, right?"

"Aye, right." Chibs nodded as he turned around to face her and press his forehead against her forehead.

The two walked through the house, staying away from the windows to not draw attention to whoever roam around their home. Although in five minutes, there was the familiar sounds of roaring motorcycles coming down their driveway. Before Chibs could move down the hallway to the front door, there was the sound of gunfire.

"Shit!" Chibs shouted.

He crouched down and wrapped his left arm around Anabelle, pushing her into a crouch position too. Anabelle yelled for Neil to get into the master bathroom, and stay close to the ground with Nolan. She got a loud 'got it' from Neil and then she heard the master bathroom door slam shut.

Chibs gestured for Anabelle to stay crouched down in the hallway while he made a dash to the front door, peeking out the window to see what was happening out. He let out a few string of curse words as the gun firing continue until it came to an end.

"Filip?" Anabelle whispered his name.

"Stay." Chibs held his hand out to her.

Chibs disarmed the house and unlocked the front door, stepping out to greet Happy, Tig, Quinn and T.O.

"Everything good with the fam?" Tig asked as he tried to peek around Chibs, who stood in the front doorway.

"Aye, shook up a bit, but they are good." Chibs said through clenched teeth to show his upset state about what gone down around the house.

"Ratboy and a prospect are checking out the land so more. There were three out here, but we managed to take down two. The other we wounded and knocked out to question." Tig explained as he stepped up on the porch of the house to stand beside Chibs.

"How did you know someone was outside?"

"Anabelle did."

"Rather Nolan did."

The men turned around to see Anabelle with her handgun in her right hand and her left hand rested on top of her hip. Her eyes scanned over each of the men, eyeing Chibs last before her attention was on everyone.

"Nolan woke up and when he quieted, I checked up on him. I happen to watch a shadow go past the window. Woke up Chibs and then all this shit happened." Anabelle explained.

"Well, I guess that was a good thing." Tig said as he looped his thumbs in his jean pockets.

"We need to take care of the bodies."

"On it." Happy said as he walked away to search for Ratboy and the prospect to help him out.

Chibs and Anabelle invited the rest into the house, turning on the lights. Anabelle walked down the hallway to check up on the boys and assure them it was safe for now.

"Mom, do you mind if I stay in here until everything is definitely checked over?" Neil said as he continued to hold on a sleeping Nolan.

"Yeah, you can stay in here."

"I'm glad the others got here quick." Neil said.

"I am too, honey, I am too." Anabelle whispered, giving Neil a tiny grin.

Anabelle left the bedroom to head into the dining room area where Chibs and the others stood around the long dining table. She stood in the doorway, staring at Chibs. Chibs stood at the head of the dining room table with his hands pressed on hard on the surface of the table. His handgun sat near his right hand. There was a clear pissed off look set upon his face.

As if he sensed her, Chibs glanced at her and he kept his eyes on her while he addressed the Sons, who stood present in the dining room around the table.

"We are to find these fuckers—" Chibs paused as he pulled his eyes away, breaking the eye connection between him and her.

His eyes landed on the men around the table, eyeing each of them with rage and annoyance. He curled his right hand into a fist and slammed his fist into the table with a hard thud.

"And we end them." Chibs said sharply through clenched teeth.

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