Chapter 224

The drive home is peaceful, just winding roads and hillside and sunshine. The ocean sparkles on our left as we take the coastal route back to Cruz Bay and Charlie’s tiny rental house on the edge of the exclusive Grenadine Heights neighborhood.

Miranda and I don’t talk much, not until we’re nearly home.

“What happened?” she asks, and I raise an eyebrow, glancing over at her briefly before I look back at the road. I might be an overly cautious driver, but better than a reckless one, right?

“Happened?” I ask, and she sighs, leaning back in her seat with her white- blond hair whipping all over the place. She’s got big, shiny silver shades on, and she lifts them to glare at me with her icy blue eyes.

“Yes, happened. Between you and Tristan. You disappeared upstairs, and we couldn’t find you.”

My cheeks flush with heat, and I know what she’s thinking. Of course she’d assume we were having sex. But with Tristan, sex is normal. Easy. It’s a way for him to expre