The undiscussed situation was Dad, but she was doing okay. I had planned on going home for the long weekend, but now that Austin and I were going to the beach, I didn’t bring it up. I felt guilty leaving my sister without me, but I knew I had to go. It was Austin. And he’d asked me.

I spent time at a few stores with some of my escorts. I was able to get a few new night clothes and things to take with me. It would be cold, most likely, though the weather forecast called for sun.

On Friday evening, after Parker and Tinsley picked up Axel, Austin held open the door for me and I got into his car. To go with Austin. To a beach house and have sex with him. At least that was my intention.

Once we were on the road, I pulled up the weather app on my phone. “Looks like sun this weekend. I’ve never been to this beach before.”

How was he even cool at driving? He was smooth. Didn’t react quickly to anything. “This song okay?”

He put on a band I’d never heard of, but liked the sound of. “Yes. So tell me about these people. They just give you keys to their places?”

He laughed and slid on his sunglasses. “Well, a bunch of us have kind of come up on social media together. We sort of have a code. We help each other when we can. These ladies are amazing organizers and life coaches. And I’ve styled them a billion times. They always want me to take them up on their offer.” He scratched the tip of his nose.

“Which was?” I turned my shoulders toward him.

“To bring a beautiful person up to the house and make sweet, sweet love to them.” He bit his lip.

I knew he was being funny, but I still felt it between my legs. “Oh.”

We pulled up to the beach house, which didn’t look like much, but I could hear the ocean almost immediately.

I met Austin by the trunk of his car and we kissed for a few minutes. Eventually, he tilted his head up. “I’ll have you right here. We need to stop.”

I was delighted to see he was affected by me. He grabbed our suitcase and I grabbed our tote bag. After Austin had plugged in the key code, we were inside. The money was invested on the inside. The house seemed like it was three-fourths glass.

“Oh. Wow.”

Austin chuckled. “Just you wait.” He walked over to a touchscreen on the wall and held his phone near it. After popping in a few codes, his phone was now a remote. “Check this out.”