Tatyana looked at her daughter with a tear in her eye. "My baby has grown up," she cried while dabbing the corner of her eye with a linen handkerchief.
"Matushka, I'm not even going far!" Irina said, doing her best to calm her mother. She and Sergei decided to live in his mother's house. It would provide them with some privacy and he didn't want to leave the last place his mother had been.
"I know, I know," she wept. "I just didn't think it would be this soon!"
Irina smiled, "Well, no worries. I'll be working at the pack hospital, so you can see me there! And you'll be able to come see me just down the road." Irina turned to look at her sisters, "And you'll come to see me, too?"
Alyona and Isabella nodded in unison. "Of course, we will!"
Alyona grinned broadly, "You can't keep us
