It had come over her slowly. Oksana wasn't any stranger to her heat and knew the signs after three years of dealing with it. She had always been careful not wanting to bring pups into the world of a loner. She didn't want them to suffer the hardships but most of all she didn't want then to grow up without a father. She knew what it was like and she wanted more for her children.
Then came Aleister, her husband and the man she wanted to be the father to her children. She wanted this for the both of them and she was sure that he wanted it too. As her heat symptoms grew stronger with each passing day she knew the moment when she was ready to accept her husband in the way that would give them children.
She sought out a quiet place she didn't think they would be disturbed. Leaving her scent along the way for him to follow. Dark tufts of fur left on branches and in the bark of trees. Until she reached the place of her choosing, a quiet place on the other side of the lake from their home. There she laid on a soft bed of pine needles she'd prepared for them and waited for her love to find her.