[It's been a better, deeper sleep than he's managed for a while, but Chase still wakes too early, when the dawn's still struggling to offer more than pale outlines.
It might have been nice to wake and to forget himself a few more moments, but his mind can't have been silenced by sleep. He wakes and tilts his head down to look at her, curious. Faintly ashamed.
It occurs to him that sleeping with any other woman, cursed, would have felt too much like taking advantage, and there's guilt for letting a different morality apply to her.]
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It might have been nice to wake and to forget himself a few more moments, but his mind can't have been silenced by sleep. He wakes and tilts his head down to look at her, curious. Faintly ashamed.
It occurs to him that sleeping with any other woman, cursed, would have felt too much like taking advantage, and there's guilt for letting a different morality apply to her.]