Kai knew all of this. I kissed his soft lips gently and pulled back to meet his eyes.

“I’m done having children. I’m doing this with the witches,” I told him and let the finality run through our mate bond. I felt his disappointment but then acceptance. He was grateful for the two children we had and if he had it his way we would have fifty kids. Hell no. Tara and Max had their mating ceremony and were now pregnant. There would be more than enough little pups running around this mountain. It would be hard to see the witches today and not have Sylvia there but her presence was still with me. She visited me in my dreams often and I was finally at peace with her sacrifice and not seeing her around.

Kai reached out and brushed a chunk of blonde hair behind my ear, then he looked at the twins again. They were jumping on our bed, laughing and falling at the same time. Three jumps and a fall. I had a feeling they could communicate telepathically, like a twin mate bond. They were always doing things in synch without talking.

Kai squeezed my hand and smiled. Anya would be the next Matefinder and Jaxon her protector. The lineage of my gift would live on to give the werewolves a fighting chance in the future. Life was good and although I felt the weight of sadness at losing Sylvia, Chelsea and Devon, it was a happy ending. The human government was pleased with the outcome. We had built my mom a guesthouse in the backyard and had given her house to Alek, his wife, and Jeremy. Emma and Avery switched houses with Diya and Trent and life on our little mountain was damn near perfect.

Jaxon and Anya were both in wolf form. Jax had Anya’s tail in his mouth and she was growling viciously. Kai walked over to the bed and stood over both of them, giving them both the Alpha stare down. Suddenly, they looked up at him and Jaxon dropped her tail and they both went belly up, submissive. I chuckled and took a pillow from the reading chair. Grasping it, I chucked it at Kai’s head causing the twins to roll back over on all fours and yip in the equivalent of werewolf laughter. Kai turned and scooped me up, throwing me over his shoulder and dropping me on the bed as the twins jumped on top of me and I squealed in laughter. Kai lay next to me and looked down at all three of us. His pride and love surged through the mate bond and I smiled.  This was it, this moment right here. I wanted to freeze it in time and keep it forever. It was perfect.

THE END