The Fox and the Alpha

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Xander's POV

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I think I'm going insane. I swear to the Goddess that I felt her, I felt her touch along my mark. I shivered within my office, my heart rate rising drastically.

"Ashe?" I whispered, but of course, I got nothing in return. I felt it, so soft, like a whisper against my skin.

I ran down the stairs, my heart pounding with every step I took. "Daniel! Alex!"

They both bounded in, their muscles tense. "Alpha Xander! What's going on?" Daniel shouted to me, both of them in their battle stances.

"I-, I felt something through my mark." I breathed out, my body instantly falling as I looked around for her.

"She's gone Xander, you have to accept that." Alex spoke weakly, like he was afraid I would hurt him. I felt fury rise through me, who was he to tell me such things? I knew she was gone, but it still hurt.

I growled, stiffly turning to walk back up the stairs. Halfway up I felt that same whisper of a touch, causing me to growl out a deathly roar and whirl around.

"Who the hell is fucking with my mate and my mark!" I screamed out. Daniel and Alex looked afraid, both of their muscles locking as I put my Alpha tone behind every word I spoke.

'I miss you.'

I collapsed on the stairs as he words flew through my head, bouncing off the endless walls inside my head. It was so real, it was as if she was wrapping her arms around me and whispering into my ear.

Daniel and Alex looked at me as if I was insane, but could I blame them. I watched as El and Alex's mate, Brian, walk in. They looked guarded, before their faces flaking in shock at watching their Alpha fall apart.

What was it she use to call me? Oh yes, the big bad Alpha, but that just made me miss her even more.

"She spoke to me, how can she speak to me?" I cried out, running my hands through my hair. I felt my heart burn, the familiar burning I had grown so accustomed to. She wasn't here to calm me down, to make me smile, to climb over the icy fortress I surrounded myself in.

'Visit the grave, the death site. Do not come home till the sun has set and the tears have dried.'

"Ashe?" Daniel looked like he was going to pass out, Alex looked like he was going insane.

Just as the words ended, whatever presence left. The room felt more alone than ever, more alone than the day of her death. Everything had changed in a year, but it wasn't for the better, it was for the worst.

The forest seemed to have die off with her, even with healers and witches coming to try and help us, it seemed our pack was lost without their Luna. Music and laughter no longer filled the halls, only silence and coldness.

There was a layer of dust on almost everything, especially the library and music room. Those rooms, no one dare step foot in, not even I. They smelled to much of her, but that scent was fading, even now.

My bedroom no longer had her within it. Even when I moved the books and clothing there, he smell left within 7 months. The fact I brought another she-wolf in there didn't help either.