CEDAR After having no luck finding my sister, I decided I would have to deal with her later and returned to the Alpha suite, only to catch my mate on the phone with a male. And not just any male. Judging by the voice on the other side of the line, which I managed to identify thanks to my werewolf hearing, it was the same male I smelled on her on the day we left her pack. The male who was not only a high-ranking member of her former home, but also her best friend. Someone who was closer to her than my Alpha instincts felt comfortable with. Someone my wolf inevitably saw as a threat. The words she spoke to him lingered in my mind while a thousand questions made my head throb, though I was uncertain if it was me having doubts, or my counterpart. Why did she call him? What was up with the