HER eyes were on the white wall of the board room. The female alpha appeared to be in a daze. One by one, the sentinels occupied a chair in the long conference table. The seat on the alpha’s right remained empty. “Everyone is here, human.” Pansy muttered in her head. Prima straightened. She cleared her throat before she looked around. She refused to meet the eyes of her friends. She never wanted to see sympathy in them. It has been two weeks since Carmen left the territory. Her mate did not send a single text message nor place a single call. Not even for their boy who missed her as much. Every single morning, Charlie would exit his room hoping to see his other mother in the kitchen preparing for his lunch box. When he returned from school, he would run to the back patio. Prima