Chapter 92. Pearl’s POVI woke up to an empty bed… the soft morning light spilling gently through the curtains, painting the room in pale gold. My eyes blinked slowly, adjusting to the brightness, and as they cleared, I noticed him… Alpha Lucien… standing across the room, at the table. He was arranging things… plates, cutlery, small details… with that careful, deliberate precision that always made my heart skip, no matter how many times I saw him do it.Good morning, princess… he said, his voice low, calm, confident… and even without turning fully to face me, I felt it… the awareness of him… the knowledge that he knew I was awake, that he was watching, attuned to me as though he could feel my every breath.“How do you know I’m up?” I asked, my voice thick with sleep, curiosity mixing with a flutter of nerves in my chest, the tiny excitement that always seemed to accompany his presence.“I know… even the faintest movement you make,” he said simply, with that quiet certainty that twist
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