I kept waiting for the day he would ask me to be his wife. I bet he'd buy me the hottest wedding gown ever. He and I would live happily together and n... one else would come between us. It was a nice thought but I had to face reality.As time went on, maybe four or five months, my man wouldn't make love to me as much. He'd just watch TV and talk on the phone a lot. I was often in the living room and he'd go to the bedroom and shut the door. I could hear his muffled voice. Sometime he'd laugh with. When a tribe grew too big, the older unmated members were pushed out. She was unmated because the Prime had not found another tribe to take her since she was his firstborn.A fire through her tribes’ part of the forest had reduced the availability of food towards the end of winter, so her father told her to go form her own tribe. Several of her sisters had also been encouraged to leave. While they had gone east, she went south and west to a part of the forest she had never been in before.Basil. Pretty quickly I couldn't see any more insurgents in the windows which meant they had changed their tactics. I ordered, "Keep an eye on the front door and the side doors, I think we're going to have some company soon."Banzai moved his sniper rifle down to a hole in the wall, fired and then yelled, "Here the fuckers come!"He was right! It looked like fucking angry ants swarming out of a disturbed anthill. The squad began to lay down hellacious fire and Banzai yelled, "Sir, get on the horn and. Our mothers are seeing whether they will admit me early." Well, that makes sense. Why didn't you tell Mr. Simmonds?" He never asked, sir." Hmmm." Well, what do you think I should do with the two of you?" Sir, you could send us to the library and bar Rachel from coming here this week. And you could suspend me for several days," I said.He asked us to wait in the outer office while he spoke with Mr. Simmonds. In a few minutes Mr. Simmonds emerged. We went back into the office."Patrick, you must.