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Chapter 22: The Squall

8 min read · 1,826 words

It was Colt who saw the second boat. He'd gone down to the dock, against instruction, to check the Persistence's lines one more time before the worst of the wind hit, and it was there, in the whipping spray and failing light, that he spotted a second running light out past the breakwater — not the sport-fishing boat everyone was already tracking, but something smaller, closer, already fighting ha...

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