Unfinished Business

PIPER’S POV

Coming home felt strange in the best way.

The island had wrapped itself around us. There was the sun, silence, Kellan’s arms at night, the way laughter came easier when there were no walls listening. Three days of forgetting the world existed. Three days of just us.

And last night…I smiled to myself as the memory surfaced.

The black lingerie. The way Kellan had gone utterly still when