So It Was Just Another Dirty Con Trick...
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.It was probably already dead, or very weak, and I know bitches will often eat a puppy in these circumstances, it is just natures way and we will always find it hard to understand. Sometimes they will push a weak baby out of the nest and so let it die. You are lucky to have the two healthy kits, enjoy them and look after her, and don't dwell on 'what might have been'.
I am sure she will soon stop calling and settle to feed and clean her new family.
Animals behave in ways that we don't understand, but we try to advance 'human' behaviour onto them to help us get to grips with the things they do. A mother in the wild will devour a dead delivery to prevent the smell reaching predators and leading them to her live offspring, plus there is the added advantage of nutrition - gruesome I know, but nature is practical rather than sentimental.
It is unlikely that Sugar is actually pining for her dead kitten, although it must appear that way, or that she associates one room with the difficulty of her first delivery.
Give her time, and she will settle, she has obviously bonded with her two live kittens, so all would seem to be well. Don't worry to much about her odd behaviour, she is new to this as well!