Several hours later, I'm changed and curled up more comfortably in my bed with Victor by my side, a baby in each of our arms, and our boys curled up like puppies at the end of the bed. Archie is on the bed too, cuddled between them.

We sit quietly together, all still focused on the two little babies who are finally, blissfully asleep.

"They're really loud, mom," lan whispers, looking at me with wide eyes to let me know that he believes it to be a very serious issue. "I don't know how we're going to get any sleep in this house."

"Well," Victor replies, smiling at him. "Luckily we're moving to the new house tomorrow. And that will have thicker walls, so they won't wake you up."

"But we need to be able to hear them," Alvin says, sitting up in sudden shock and worry. "What if they need us?"

"They'll be here with us," I promise him, smiling. "They'll sleep in our bedroom for a long time."

"Well then so will I," Alvin murmurs, laying back down in a huff. lan nods, muttering his agreement. Posted by Narugi.com; visit us for more free novels.

"Six people in a bedroom," Victor sighs, looking down at the light-haired baby and running his broad hand over her tiny head. "We'll be a very grumpy family for a very long time."

"The family that suffers insomnia together stays together," I reply, smiling. Honestly there's nothing I'd like more than to have my little family gathered all together like the little wolf pack I imagine us as. "Plus, we can teach the boys to change diapers, and that will cut our work in half."

"That!" lan says declaratively, raising a finger. "Is where I draw the line."

"I'll do double, then," Alvin says, yawning. "I don't mind. I like to be helpful."

I give him a little nudge of thanks with my foot and he grins at me, filling my heart again, when I didn't think it could go any further.

"Hey," lan says, c*g his head to the side and crawling over to look seriously at his dark-haired baby. "What am I supposed to call her, anyway?"

"Number One," I say definitively, nodding sagely. "As she was the first, she is number one."

"No," he says, frowning at me. "I was number one."

"How do you know that?" I ask him, frowning. It's true, actually - lan was born first. But I was careful never to tell Alvin and lan their birth order, knowing that first- and second-born wolves usually have such a rivalry.

"Because I was there, mom," he says, rolling his eyes and I laugh until I realize that he's perfectly serious. Then, I go a little pale.

"So," lan continues, not noticing my reaction, "is she number three, then?"

Alvin climbs over too, peering at his baby. "I don't think I like the sound of number four," he says consideringly. I can't help smile pulling at my lips as I see how seriously they're taking me.

"Well," Victor says, quiet. "What would you name them? They're your babies, after all," he says, giving a little shrug.

"I don't know," Alvin says, looking up at him with complete sincerity on his face.

"You'll let us name them?" lan says, suddenly excited.

"How about," I say, looking at Victor to see what he thinks. "We will give you each two options for your little girl, and then you pick from those. All right?"

The boys look at each other, negotiating mind-to-mind, but then they look at us and nod.

"Victor?" I ask, turning to him and nodding towards his youngest child. "What are the choices for the child previously known as baby number four?"

"Really?" he asks, looking at me with raised brows. "I get full decision here? No veto?"

"You earned it," I say, smirking and leaning close to press a kiss to his shoulder.

"All right," he says, looking down at the little girl. "I think...Heather, or Eleanor."

Alvin considers for a moment and then - my sweet boy's eyes filling with sentimental tears - he reaches out again, as he did before, and places his finger on her nose. "Your name is Eleanor Kensington. And I am your best friend."

I bite my lip a little at the sweetness of the whole then, staring between Alvin and baby Eleanor, but I'm interrupted with lan's eager tap on my arm.

"Me me me," he says, hardly able to contain his excitement. "My turn, mama. Please." And he looks down, again, at his little girl.

"Well," I say, shifting her in my arms and leaning forward so lan can better see her face. She frowns in her sleep, squirming a little and making me smile. "I was thinking Rose, or Violet."

"Violet," lan says instantly, nodding as if it's right, as if it was her name all along. "Your name is Violet," he says, tapping her little nose lightly with his finger. "And I will always protect you." "Those are wonderful choices," Victor says quietly, looking between Eleanor and Violet.

"This is nice," Alvin says, sitting back comfortably and smiling all around at us. "I like our new family. It is good. The old one was good too," he says, giving a little shrug, "but it is good to have sisters as well."

"I also like them," lan says after a moment, nodding seriously. I laugh, thinking that he looks almost as if he thought that if he didn't like them that we'd just get rid of them and turn back to the way things were. "I'm excited for them to learn how to talk so we can teach them things."

"Like what," I ask, leaning against Victor, who wraps his spare arm around me and hugs me tight.

"Like, how to spy," lan replies easily, making me laugh, as if it's a normal thing to want to teach a little sister.

"And how to see the magic," Alvin adds.

"Do you think they'll be able to?" I ask, looking down at these two little celestial twins, wondering what wonders they'll have in store for us. If they're anything like they're brothers, they'll bring us a great deal of joy along with a variety of surprises. And they'll keep us laughing every day, as their brothers do.

"If they would wake up," lan says, a little frustrated, "we'd be able to tell."

"What?" I say, a little breathless. "Is it - is it here?"

"Really?" Victor asks at the same moment, looking around.

"Sure, mama," Alvin laughs, shaking his head at me. "It's been here all day - gathering round

and round. Can't you see it?"

"No," I reply, looking around the room with wide eyes. "I can't -"

"Try harder," Alvin says, taking my hand. Ian, at the same moment, puts his hand on Victor's arm. Victor and I look at each other for a second and then we both try at once, reaching for the bond between us and asking it, together, to show us.

And then, it becomes perfectly clear, and we both gasp as we see the room lit, quite suddenly, with the magic that fills it - that has been filling it, apparently, all day.

"It's here, mama," Alvin says quietly, snuggling close against me.

"It's been here the whole time," lan adds, moving closer to his dad and resting his head on his

chest, looking down at baby Eleanor.

I look down at Violet in my arms, smiling at her in the golden light of the magic around us. And

then I look at Eleanor, and each of my boys, and finally at Victor.

"Yes," I say quietly, smiling at him. "Yes, I really think it has."

And then I kiss my love, my mate, and he kisses me back, giving me all of himself.

And I know that we are so, so lucky to have found each other.

"Our little magical family is finally complete," Victor whispers to me as he pulls away. "And I

couldn't be happier."

"Well, probably," I murmur, grinning at him.

"What?" he says, pulling away from me a little bit, frowning with confusion and suspicion.

"Well come on!" I say, laughing and gesturing at our four kids. "They're really cute! Tell me you don't want four more."

"Oh my god, Evelyn," Victor murmurs, putting his forehead in his head, already exhausted. "Can we just...raise these four? And see how it goes, before we agree on eight?"

"Sure," I say, winking at the boys who grin at me. "We'll just...see what happens."

And then I rest back against my pillows with my head on my mate's shoulder, smiling around at

my little family.

Six is good but...

Well.

Ten is just such a nice, round number.

Or maybe...twelve...

THE END

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