Hello everybody! I am terribly sorry that it took me so long to finally post the last chapter! I want to thank all of you again for reading and reviewing. I hope you enjoy this last chapter!

Two years later:

Alma was sitting on a blanket underneath one of Fiona's huge trees in their garden. In her arms her beautiful newborn daughter was sleeping. Alma allowed herself to close her eyes for a minute to savor the unusual quietness around her. Michael had taken the other children to the cinema to watch a movie. Two years after Michael and her had come together Michael was like a real father to them. After only a couple of weeks after their late night talk Michael had proposed to her. Normally, Alma would have not even considered marriage after such a short time but it just felt so right. It was so cute how Michael had asked the children for their approval as well. It had warmed her heart to see how the eyes of her little Claire shone with excitement and how the twins started to talk in their own language. Michael had listened to them and nodded from time to time as if he understood what the two were talking about. But it became clear that whatever they were saying was something positive when they ended their speech by hugging Michael. Enoch had only nodded but he had offered his hand to Michael to welcome him to their family.

One year ago in late spring they had married in a small ceremony. Afterwards Michael and her had been on honeymoon. Although Miss Avocet had watched over the children Alma couldn't stand to be far away from her charges so they had stayed in a small cottage at the beach only a couple of Miles away. Nevertheless, it was a beautiful time and both of them had cherished the time they spend together.

Two months later Alma had realized that something was different. She had constantly felt sick in the morning and something had always felt…different. When she had taken a pregnancy test and it turned out positive she had been nervous and excited at the same time. It was very rare that ymbrynes had children of their own and Alma of course had never expected to have a biological child one day. For a moment her old fear of neglecting her children had returned but like always Michael had managed to calm her down. Alma was sure that she had hardly every feared anything as much as she telling her children about the pregnancy. She had expected them to be jealous and angry. She had expected them to be afraid to be ranked second (even if she would never allow herself to favor any of her children over the other even if it was her biological child). But in contrast to her expectations the were beyond exited! Claire even started shouting with pure joy in her voice: "I am going to be a big sister!" The older children expressed their happiness as well. Even Enoch smiled as he congratulated them.

Over the next couple of weeks Alma caught her younger children practicing handling a baby with their dolls. Alma could not be happier. She was married to the perfect man and had the best charges one could possibly imagine and now their big family would be completed by her own biological child.

Several months later her beautiful baby girl was born and she was faced with completely new challenges. Claire had been already two years old when she had tad taken her in. Looking after a newborn child Alma realized that she was on completely unknown terrain. She was very glad that Michael was there to look after the young one too. More than once he had gotten up to look after their child when she had been crying in the middle of the night or he had let her sleep in the morning getting the older children ready for the day on his own. Sometimes like today he would take the other children to town which gave her a couple of hours for herself. Although she loved her family more than anything else she enjoyed those times immensely. She needed those times too. It gave her time to think. Mostly her thoughts revolved around her family and how each and every one of its members had changed her life. She would never forget the days that she had taken in her children and met her husband. Right now her life couldn't be more perfect.