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Black coffee early in the morning
Wake up tangled in your arms
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You awake to the smell of coffee and a calloused hand gentle on your cheek and a kiss on your temple. 6 am like every morning in the three years since you moved to the valley makes the alarm clock on your nightstand almost obsolete. You open your eyes to see that smile that you never knew you were missing your whole life.
You stare at him and he stares back and you feel like you could live here forever in his eyes, in his arms. He looks at you with a feeling you can't believe you get to wake up to every morning, like you're the best thing that ever happened to him. The soft intimacy of simply knowing each other and being close enough to hold. The subtle but overwhelming feeling of love that surges through your heart when you think of how lucky you are to know this man thoroughly. You know how he likes his eggs cooked and just how much he loves his chickens, you know how his favorite season is summer because he loves peppers so much and how proud he is of his perfect on pizza hot sauce recipe. You know so much about Shane there's always more to know though, but the only thing you really need to know is that you love him and he loves you.
You scoot closer to Shane savoring the precious moments before the world worms its way into your day. You've grown to love life here in a quiet little pelican town but the days are long and arduous, so quiet moments like this are something you hang on to. You cling to him and he clings to you, both of you holding each other like the life force you know you really are to the other.
Every day you tell yourself this is the most I can love anyone and every day you Surprise yourself by loving him more. You move to look at him one more time before you have to leave the bed, those eyes have seen so much but now they only see you. stretching the sleep from your muscles and groaning a complaint about crops and fences and coops, not exactly eager to start the day but belligerently aware of all the things needing to be done. But before all that you get to spend the morning with your husband, even better you get to have breakfast.