A Runt Luna
Chapter 47

"Oh, baby I'm so proud of you." Rory kissed her daughters forehead and reached over to get her a cookie.

"Daddy says that I am growing into a strong foxy like you."

"I bet you are." Rory nodded, leaning back into Kole as he came to stand next to her.

"Mommy, are you growing me a brother?" Rose asked looking down at her moms six month along stomach.

"I told you baby, I don't know. But either way you are going to love your sibling, boy or girl. Right?" Rory said, rubbing her stomach.

"Right." Rose rolled her eyes, having this conversation multiple times a week she knew what she was supposed to say. But regardless of what her mommy told her she was praying to the moon goddess that she was getting a brother, because Parker liked to take her dollies.

"Good. Now, go help Uncle Alex with your cousins." Kole said picking her up and setting her down.

"How's my mate?" Kole asked pulling her in for a kiss.

"Good," Rory nodded, "We're good." She rubbed her stomach happily. Alex

walked into the kitchen, a kid on each leg, attempting to hold him down.

"Couldn't burn off a little more energy for me, Ror." Alex laughed gesturing to her legs.

"I tried my best." Rory laughed.

"They are outnumbering me."

"Well, you only have what- a day until Georgia gets home." Kole said, his hand rubbing up and down Rory's back.

"Next time Edna wants to take a road trip, you need to take her. I cant handle these monsters on my own." Alex said moving to forward as the kids left his legs, only to stumble and look down to see that they tied his shoelaces together.

Rory laughed turning her attention back to the cookies, putting the last batch into the oven. Rose being a fox was a complete surprise to both Rory and Kole. She was only 3 when she transformed for the first time after a major temper tantrum. They had for sure thought that she would take after her father and be a wolf, but since the duo skipped the Annual Balls they didn't have much information on the Old Kingdom.

It wasn't that she didn't want to go to the ball, but each year something more important seemed to occur. The first one, she was held captive during, the second time she wasn't wanting to travel when the new pack would be celebrating their first holidays together and she didn't want to travel with a small child and so on.

-*-----*---- 1 YEAR LATER ------*‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒‒

The air was cold, and breezy. The world seemed to be a little empty without Edna in it. She felt Kole rubbing her back, but it did little to comfort her after losing the closest thing she had to a mother figure.

She glanced across the grave and saw Peter, looking worse for wear. She couldn't imagine being in his position. Not only was she his adoptive mother, but he was the one to replace her. She had gone peacefully in her sleep. Slowly disentangling herself from her mate, she walked over to Peter and gently put a hand on his back in hopes to soothe some of his ache.

"She's in a better place now. Finally reunited with her mate." Peter said, glancing over at her.

"She is." Rory nodded, not sure what else she could say. Rory watched as Kole stood at the head of the gravestone and rubbed his wrists, clearly upset. As the Alpha of the pack, it was his duty to honor a fallen pack member.

"Friends, family." Kole began. "We are gathered here to not to mourn the loss of Edna, but to celebrate the life she had. A wise woman, a loving woman, and a mother to many We all know that Edna danced to her own beat and did her own thing, and she has asked that as welay her to rest we watch a previously planned firework show." He ended gesturing to the sky beside them and

immediately fireworks were set off. It was such an Edna thing to request that Rory couldn't help the slight chuckle that left her lips.

"I love that woman." She said wrapping Peter in a hug, before moving to console her children and focus their attention on the firework show instead of the men filling in the grave.

"Isn't it beautiful." Rory said to Rose and Parker getting her youngest, Steven to look at the lights. Rose's wish came true, her newest sibling was indeed a boy. All were watching the firework show, it was in that moment that they had a moment of peace.

-----*-----*---- 1 YEAR LATER ------*------*‒‒‒‒

"Are you crying?" Kole asked her with a slight chuckle.

"I cant help it, hay boy is getting married." Rory said blowing her nose. She knew she shouldn't have been so surprised that lan and his new found mate, Missy were tying the knot. Rory knew that they were both so happy to have found each other, lan almost 21 before he found his mate, but the moon goddess knew what she was doing when she matched them. Missy came from a troubled family but with little time she felt comfortable with the pack and found her place by lan's side.