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chapter seventy-three

작가: Amanda Dyz
last update 최신 업데이트: 2025-12-09 06:10:27

Alex was awake long before the sun.

It was barely 4 a.m., Chicago still wrapped in its quiet blue darkness, and he sat at the small desk in the bedroom, shirtless, hair messy, eyes fixed on the laptop screen as he typed notes for his father. Old habits. The early-morning discipline that had been drilled into him since childhood. Except now, there was a softness in the air that had nothing to do with discipline and everything to do with the woman sleeping peacefully behind him.

At 6 a.m., Lily stirred.

Alex looked up just in time to see her blink her eyes open, confusion fading into a sleepy smile when she saw him watching her. She rubbed her eyes with the back of her hand, her hair loose around her face.

“You,” he murmured, “look too beautiful in the morning. It’s unfair.”

Lily groaned and hid her face in the pillow for a second. “Don’t start. My face is puffy.”

“Adorably puffy,” he corrected, walking over to sit by her. He cupped her cheek gently. “Good morning, sweetheart.”

She sat
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