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A Good Morning

Author: Emarc
last update publish date: 2026-10-29 15:33:17

I wake before him, which almost never happens.

For a few minutes I don't move at all, just lie there with my cheek against his chest, matching my breathing to the slow rise and fall of his, listening to the fire pop and settle in the grate across the room. Someone, probably Sebastian or one of the quieter staff who seem to materialize and vanish without ever being seen, must have crept in sometime before dawn to stoke it back to life, because the chill that always creeps into this old stone roo
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