Tail of Two Lives

Ken thought he'd spend the rest of his life waking up to the scent of pine and fur, wrapped in the arms of the fox hybrid who trusted him with every hidden part of himself. Finn was his secret, his home, his forever-until one cold morning when Finn didn't come back.
Six months of grief and denial later, a stranger named Ash crashes into Ken's quiet, broken world. Ash is nothing like Finn: louder, clumsier, human in every obvious way. But he has the same laugh, the same scent hidden under city smoke, the same unconscious tilt of the head when he's curious. Ken pushes him away, terrified of hope, terrified it's all in his head.
He doesn't know yet that some foxes don't stay gone forever.
Some come back wearing a different face, carrying echoes of a love that refused to die.