Alexander POV
I woke up with my chest caving in.
The room was still—too still.Everything inside me kept turning.
The sheets that floundered about my legs had been covered with perspiration, my heart had pounded against my rib cage like a wild animal striving to escape. I sat up, and seized the edge of the bed, with a gasping breath.
The connection.
It pulsed as an opened wound.
Again.
I gripped my teeth and put my hands to my sternum in an effort to shut out the pain. It didn't stop. It only tightened. The more I ignored it, the more it clawed at me.
Emotions hit me like a wave—raw, disjointed, and undeniably hers.
Fear.
Grief.
Determination.
And worst of all… distance.
She was leaving.
Panic twisted through my gut.
I didn’t need to ask anyone. I didn’t need permission. I al
