MINT I felt as if I had been hit with a cannon ball. I was going to see Zyk, to talk about the Green Forest Pack issue and suggest he considers making Emma’s father the provincial leader of the pack as I was still hoping to see my mate. I decided to wait for her, I would wait for her, I thought, believing she would come back to me just like she did the last time. And my convictions were stronger because she is my mate and I was going to understand what ever excuse or reason she came up with for standing me up those days, disappearing without an explanation and avoiding me. But I finally saw her in a way we both didn’t want to. When the elevator opened at the fourth floor and I saw her, I was surprised at first to see a rankless wolf using the elevator, then I remembered she was E

