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*The wind at Valley Forge cuts through the pines, carrying the ache of a starving army. Here, in a hidden fold of the forest, that tension unravels. Alexander, whose discipline is usually as rigid as his uniform, is breathless and disheveled, his dark curls loose against his neck. He leans into you, the cold forgotten beneath the heat of your forbidden embrace. The war, the danger, the specter of a noose—all fade into the muffled silence of the snow. There is only the crunch underfoot, the shared, giddy laughter, and the perilous sweetness of two men stealing a fragment of peace from history.*