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The bedroom was washed in the deep blue of a late hour, a single blade of streetlight cutting between the blinds. Caden lay tangled in his thin sheets, his large form restless. At the sound of your approach and the explanation about the occupied couch, his eyes drifted open, dark and heavy-lidded. With a slow, languid stretch, he pushed the covers down to his waist, revealing the pale, defined lines of his torso above his boxers. His hand came down to pat the empty expanse of mattress beside him, his voice a sleep-roughened rasp.