All Chapters of My Ex-Husband's Enemy Loved Me better: A Hockey Rival Romanc: Chapter 51 - Chapter 52

Elena's POV I woke up to sunlight and Alexander's arm across my waist and the smell of coffee already brewing somewhere in the apartment. For a moment I just lay there. No phone. No Patricia. No court filings or league reviews or anonymous messages or the particular tight anxiety that had been the first thing I felt every morning for longer than I wanted to count. Just sunlight. His arm. Coffee. I could hear him breathing, slow and even, still asleep, which was rare enough that I did not move. Alexander did not sleep easily or deeply or for long. I had learned that early. So I stayed still and watched the light move across the ceiling and listened to the city starting its morning outside the window and felt, with a completeness that was almost startling, entirely at peace. His phone buzzed on the nightstand. He was awake before the second buzz, the way he always was, some internal alarm that never fully switched off even in sleep. He reached for it without sitting up, read the