49 pages 1 hour read

Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 2014

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Chapters 16-20Chapter Summaries & Analyses

Chapter 16 Summary: “Miles, Six Years Ago”

Miles and Rachel go to the beach. They’re having an enjoyable day, and they make each other happy. Miles confesses that he stopped believing in God when his mother died, but when he met Rachel, he believed that God is real again. Rachel cries and tells him her period is late.

Chapter 17 Summary: “Tate”

Corbin invites Tate to dinner with him, Ian, and Miles to celebrate Miles’s promotion to captain. Miles acts very humbly about the promotion, and he and Tate flirt in veiled ways during the dinner. After dinner, Ian and Corbin go out drinking. Miles goes with Tate to her car, which is a few blocks away in the parking garage near her workplace. They get caught in a rainstorm before getting in the car, where they have sex. They play a game to see who can stay quiet the longest since they’re trying to have sex in secret, and Tate loses.

They get back to Miles’s apartment where they have sex again, and Tate asks why Miles won’t make eye contact with her during sex. He says it’s because she might read too much into his emotions. When Miles asks her if it bothers her, she betrays her true feelings: “I’m shaking my head no, but my heart is crying Yes! ‘I’ll get used to it, I guess.