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“We’re still proud of you,” her dad said. “Believe me, everyone has been truly welcoming, so don’t worry about us.”

Maisie smiled. “Okay, good. I hope to be out in a little while.” She hurried back to the clinic and saw Ike and William leaving. Ike’s eyes were filled with tears. She felt bad for him, knowing how much the loss of his twin had to hurt. Then she entered the delivery room to see where the ladies were at in their stages of delivery. Colleen was panting hard, and she appeared to be having her second pup.

Heather was eating ice chips, then resting.

“You’re almost there, Colleen, keep going,” Robert said while Grant continued to pet her.

Then they saw the second pup’s head breach, and Robert waited for her to finish delivering the pup. Once she cleaned him up, Robert took care of the umbilical cord and cleaned the pup further. He set him with his sibling, and the second little male began to nurse.

Edeen rubbed her own back, and Robert said, “Why don’t you rejoin the others and just enjoy the party? Maisie will help me if I need assistance. You need to rest.”

“Alright.” Then Edeen left the room.

Maisie hoped if she was really needed, she wouldn’t messup anything. But the next thing she knew, Heather was delivering her second pup.

“Where do we go from here, Doc?” Grant asked.

“Colleen and Heather can stay here for the night and I’ll watch over them, or they can go home with the two of you and you just let me know if their conditions change at all. Make sure they don’t have any fevers, the pups are eating well, staying warm, and moms are feeling fine, then that’s good. The ladies can shift anytime they want, but they should do so when someone’s with them to be able to help them with the second baby,” Robert said. “Colleen and Heather can eat now too.”

Colleen was sleeping right now, and Grant said, “I’ll take her home after Heather is ready to go home. We’ll be going to the castle, all of us, so if you need to check on them, that’s where we’ll be. Besides, we have a ton of wolves in the pack who will be helping to take care of them and the babies. We don’t want Heather and Enrick to be at their home alone right now.”

“That sounds like a winning plan,” Robert said.

They stayed with the new mothers in the delivery room until they were ready to leave with their mates. Welcoming the newest members of their pack was important to the wolves, though the moms and dads would have all the bonding time in the world with them too.

Then Heather finally rose to her feet, her pups sleeping. Colleen’s pups were sleeping also, and she stood up. Everyone knew they were ready to go.

Edeen suddenly returned with Heather’s bag. “In case youwanted to shift and dress.” As soon as the mothers shifted from wolves to humans, their pups would shift into babies too.

Heather shifted and opened her bag. She pulled out a change of clothes and started to get dressed. “Thanks. I’m starving.” They even had clothes and diapers for the babies in their bags, and Maisie and Enrick each started dressing the babies.

“Do you want to shift also, Colleen?” Grant put his hand on the zipper of her bag.

She quickly woofed and nodded, and he opened her bag and began to get her clothes out for her and then the babies’ diapers and onesies.

When the kids were older, they would have control over the shift themselves, but when they were young, the mother would, which was best for both of them. Otherwise, a pup could shift into a baby on a wolf run, or a baby could turn into his wolf while at a store, and what a disaster that would be.

Colleen shifted, and Edeen began dressing one of the babies, and Grant put a diaper on one of his twins. “You’re doing great.” Colleen started to dress, watching him.

“Aye, well, you made me practice enough.”

Everyone laughed.

“How do you both feel?” Maisie was amused that Colleen had made Grant practice changing a baby’s diaper. There were no other babies in the pack right now that she knew of, so she figured he had to have practiced on a baby doll and not a wriggling baby.

“Tired. I want to sleep for weeks,” Colleen said. “But I’m starving too.”

Heather agreed with her and held her firstborn in her arms for the first time, while Enrick was holding their other baby; both of the babies were happily sleeping. “Now my brothers can work at the pie shop to their hearts’ content without annoying me about leaving to deliver the babies.”

“I’m just so glad to have these babies.” Colleen was fully dressed now, cuddling with one of her newborns wrapped in a green baby blanket decorated in wolf pups playing. Grant was holding the other, looking like he was getting used to it, his tiny tot wrapped in a blue baby blanket featuring wolf pups sleeping.

“Are you ready? I would suggest you use wheelchairs until you feel more steady on your feet,” Robert said.

“Yeah,” Enrick said, “let’s use them.”

Maisie was glad Robert had thought ahead and purchased two of them.

The ladies didn’t object, and Maisie and Robert brought them out and then helped the women sit. They pushed Heather and Colleen through the clinic and outside along the walkway to the house. As soon as they went inside Robert’s house, everyone came around to greet them, but they were wolf quiet, no one wanting to disturb the babies.