Fortunately, she wasn’t a light sleeper so he was easily able to disentangle her limbs from where they had been draped over him and slip out of bed. He’d always been a morning person, waking with the sun from the time he was a baby. His mother loved to joke that they used to have to put black-out charms on the windows in his nursery if they had any hope of sleeping in the next day. As an adult that had not changed, it didn’t matter what time he went to bed, he woke with the sun. 