Tiana woke to the weight of an arm loosely draped across her waist, the warmth of a body pressed behind her, and the soft rise and fall of Ross’s breath against the back of her neck. For a long, suspended moment, she didn’t move.She let herself exist in the unfamiliar safety of it – the feeling of belonging somewhere, even if only for a fragile dawn.The morning light filtered through the curtains in soft shafts, touching the rumpled sheets, the discarded clothes, and the quiet evidence of what had happened between them. Evidence she had never imagined would exist.Ross shifted slightly, tightening his arm around her as if sensing the world trying to intrude.“Don’t get up,” he murmured, voice still gravelled with sleep.Her chest tightened. Not with fear, but with wonder at how different his voice sounded when stripped of the armour he always wore.“I wasn’t,” she whispered.Ross exhaled softly, letting his forehead rest between her shoulder blades. For a moment, he didn’t speak, an
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