Sam POV
“I don’t have a mate,” I plainly said. I tried to smile to keep the conversation at ease, but it did not happen. Candy looked up at me, waiting for me to continue. “I don’t have a mate,” I repeated. I was waiting for the pain to come and claim me, but also nothing. There was never a time when I talked about my mate for years, so I didn’t know why I should talk about her then with someone I didn’t know personally.
“What happened?” she asked softly.
Clearing my throat, I didn’t know where to start exactly. “She died.” There was nothing I knew more about Alice except her being a human princess, the step-sister of Kimberly.
Candy gasped. She shook her head and looked at me with worried eyes. “I’m so sorry.”
Shrugging my shoulders, I replied, “It has been ages.”
“And you did not
