Three months later...

Now I know what else I would want... Some goddamned painkiller!
- Come here! - I shouted to my husband when I had another contraction. A month after he proposed, we got married and said "I do". We had a small ceremony in the garden and everything went like a fairy tale. However, at this point the reality of the pain just got to me. I had been in labor for several hours and had never experienced such an unimaginable level of pain. And I thought I was immune to it. It seems that childbirth has surpassed all expectations in this aspect.
- Celibacy for the rest of your life! I will sterilize you! - I continued to scream at the top of my lungs. After a few minutes that felt like an eternity, I heard the magic words coming from Ann's mouth:
- Perfect! Keep it up! I can see him now! Push! - I followed the instructions and suddenly I heard a cry mixed with crying characteristic for young children.
- You're doing great, honey. - said Adrian, who was pale as a wall. A moment later I felt another wave of powerful contractions. I screamed again and clamped my hand tightly on his. He grimaced, but didn't even squeal. He did absolutely nothing to free himself from my iron grip, he just endured it bravely.
- All right... We still have two left. - Eleonor, the nurse, sent me a smile without paying attention to my piercing gaze. A backyard Latin flew from my mouth and suddenly there was a second baby in the world. Okay, the last straight line to ending my suffering. After another hour of agony, a big, healthy boy was in the world crying and screaming even louder than his brothers. I felt like I had just lost my soul. I was all sweaty and wet. When all the tests and other fiddle-faddle were over I drifted off into a blissful sleep.

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After waking up, I saw my whole family, around the strollers with the transparent top that my sons were in. After seeing their worried faces, my heart froze for a moment.
- What's going on? - I asked, lifting myself up a little to see if I could move. I felt pain in my lower body, so I stayed in my original position.
- The smallest one. He... smells so different. - began my father-in-law. Authentically. In addition to the dominant smell of alphas, there was a strange sweet note in the air. Each position in the hierarchy smells different. Alphas are males, and females acquire that title either when they marry the alpha who leads the pack or when they are strong enough to exhibit the characteristics of that group and are so named. So far, I am the only female alpha who was born that way and did not acquire the title of alpha by marriage or by jumping a "hierarchical class" upward. It works the same way with the positions of other groups in the hierarchy. However, one can never fall downward. Unless the Council decides otherwise. They are the only ones able to take back positions.
- Actually... It's just that I know that smell from somewhere. My nose has dealt with it before. - I said while searching my memory. - But... - then it came to me. I looked at my smallest baby with interest. The prophecy was right. I had brought back, or rather we had brought back, for without Adrian it would not have been possible, a wolf with an extinct position in the hierarchy. The last time I smelled that scent was the day my native pack was attacked. - Omega. The other two are alphas. - They looked at me with surprise and disbelief.
- But Ros... Omegas never existed... Those are fairy tales told by elders... - said my husband, but I shook my head, disagreeing with him. They don't know such an obvious fact, because the existence of omegas was erased at some point. If they no longer exist, why remember them? They became a legend told by grandparents to their grandchildren.
- Yes, they existed. However, there were only a handful of them. The last ones were slaughtered in my pack during the attack that trapped our entire family.
- Woman... There's always some action going on around you.... - Adrian shook his head from side to side with a laugh on his lips.
- If you regret getting involved with me it's a little late for that. Now you won't get rid of me that easily. - I gave him a wink.
- I'm not going anywhere. - He came up and kissed me on the lips then handed me our two children, with the third one in his arms. He sat down next to me on the bed and that's how we watched our kids and family start to leave to give us some privacy. I could see the love and joy in their eyes. I remembered how warmly they had welcomed me from the beginning of our acquaintance and loved me as a true family would. Because families sometimes are not formed by blood ties. Sometimes family is friends and people who have always been by our side, are by our side, and will be by our side no matter what. Always and forever.