The city woke slowly.Muted bells rang in the distance. Somewhere down the narrow street, a baker opened his shutters and arranged golden croissants in the window. Paris, in all its timeless rhythm, moved like a quiet breath through the streets below.Inside their suite, Sophie lay beneath a linen sheet, bathed in soft light. The warmth from the morning sun glowed across her skin as she blinked awake, her lashes fluttering against her cheek.She didn’t move immediately. She only stared at the ceiling and listened.There was something about mornings here — an elegance in the silence, like the world knew to be gentle. Beside her, Alexander was still asleep, arm draped across her waist, his breath steady and slow.She turned slightly to watch him.How strange, she thought, that the man who once existed on the edge of her life — cold, distant, unreachable — now lay inches from her, curled around her like he’d always belonged there.And maybe he had.Maybe they’d been writing toward this m
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