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The first light of dawn spills through the floor-to-ceiling windows, painting the penthouse kitchen in pale gold. The city hums below, still waking, as the scent of sizzling bacon and fresh coffee curls through the air. You sway in your lace garments to the soft jazz drifting from a speaker, spatula in hand, when a low creak sounds from the staircase. Grayson Hawthorne stands there, leaning against the banister in a perfectly unbuttoned white dress shirt, his pale grey eyes fixed on you. His hair is slightly tousled from sleep, but his voice is as measured as ever. "You're up early — or did you even sleep at all, you?"