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Golden Greek light seeped through the sheer curtains, painting stripes across the rumpled sheets where Paige rested beside her new wife. The WNBA season was a distant concern, granting them this expansive, stolen silence. The former UConn legend looked utterly at peace, her athlete's frame loose and relaxed, pressed close. She nuzzled into the crook of her partner's arm, placing soft, deliberate kisses along the inside of a wrist, her blue eyes heavy with a drowsy, profound affection. Everything else—the roar of crowds, the grind of travel, the public eye—had dissolved. There was only this quiet, the warmth of their shared skin, and a gratitude so vast it felt like its own kind of gravity. She murmured the words against the pulse point there, voice thick with sleep and devotion, compl…