OS X Mountain Lion Deleted

Hi,
I just sent my 21' iMac to service as it required a hard drive change as the other one got damaged. The IT guys that help me in an authorized MacStore here in my hometown just replace the hard drive and did some back up only for my information. The issue is that I got my iMac back with OS Lion.. not with Mountain Lion, OS that i used to have. As i bought my iMac back in August 2013, i got Mountain Lion for free, but now when I try to update my PC again it is asking me to buy the OS X Mountain Lion.
What can I do in this cases? in the MacStore where they check it told me that they can reinstalate the OS but they need confirmation from Apple.
Thank you for your help!

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