It was clear. Even his own pack had stopped respecting this show.
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(Alex's POV)
My office felt colder than usual as I stepped inside and shut the door behind me. There was no warmth here anymore, no sense of belonging.
The mate pendant sat on my desk next to some forgotten stack of papers. Its repaired crystal glimmered in the faint light, but it might as well have been a dead rock for all the significance it now held.
Aurora had returned it to me, carefully and deliberately, before signing her name on those damned documents.
I picked it up gingerly. My hands shook slightly as I held it, turning it over and over. The magic in the pendant once pulsed so powerfully, so clearly tied to our bond. Now, it was dull, lifeless. As if it mocked me.
I placed it back down, staring at
