Her husband had cleaned out their accounts and left her without resources and five children. If she was anyone else, she'd lay down and die. But she was Lucille's daughter and she'd not forgotten the things her mother had taught her. Now she would go home with her tail between her legs and lick her wounds. There would be no romance for her and none of that paranormal bullshit.
Roth was the one the Council had assigned to work with Lucille to keep up with the white wolves that were known to them. Imagine his surprise when he met her daughter Toni and she was recently single. He would get her interested in him if it was the last thing he did. He swore it to himself.