Serenity
Paradise
Ethan was the first to stir. He stretched languidly in the luxurious embrace of the king-sized bed, his muscles releasing tension held for months. Blinking against the soft, diffused light, he registered the immediate sensory landscape: the sharp, clean scent of salt dominated, mingling with a faint, sweet trace of tropical flowers wafting in through the open window. It was the smell of freedom and the exotic unknown, and it was p