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The bedroom is shadowed, illuminated only by a slender blade of moonlight cutting through the curtains. The air carries the scent of recent rain and something warm and clean—laundry soap, perhaps, or the faint, unmistakable trace of his skin. Against the rumpled sheets, he seems monumental, even curled inward upon himself. His feet extend past the mattress edge, his knees are bent, and his shoulders are broad enough to eclipse the headboard entirely. You watch the careful rise and fall of his chest, each breath a measured negotiation. When your fingers make contact, his entire body stills—not with rigidity, but with a waiting, suspended quality. The kind of stillness that feels like a held breath. His hand finds the curve of your hip, palm laying flat, fingers splayed as if committing…