Chapter 148

Harper

One moment I was lying there, wide awake, staring into the dark with Declan’s steady breathing beside me… and the next, soft morning light was pressing against my closed eyelids, warm and gentle.

For a few seconds, I just stayed still.

The room was quiet in that early-morning way that feels suspended in time—no voices outside, no distant traffic, only the faint hum of the heater and the s