Vanessa had six boys with her human husband, Brian had been her oldest, and the news that he would be considered dead along with the other three men he had been sent into space with broke her heart. Her other boys had spent the last few months trying to keep her in good spirits, but with his birthday approaching, they were losing hope that she would recover from losing one of her sons. She had hardly found the energy to get out of bed most mornings and had fallen into a depression. All of her boys still lived in her home, and she had never complained. She enjoyed looking after them. It did break her heart that none of them had seemed to find their mates.
She lay in bed listening to the five of them arguing over what they would be doing for dinner and how they would be getting her to eat s
