Chapter 148 The First Morning

• Riley's POV
• The ocean was still there when I woke up. That sounds like a strange thing to notice, but I noticed it — the way the light moved across the water through the villa's open panels, slow and unhurried, like it had nowhere else to be. I lay there and watched it for a full minute before I understood why it felt wrong.
• Nothing was wrong, that was the problem. I was so used to issues arising that peace felt so strange at a point. I was lying in a bed in a private overwater villa in the Maldives, on the first morning of my honeymoon, and some part of my brain was still scanning the exits.