Chapter 34: The Dock at Low Tide

The ride back to the marina had passed in a fog for Nora, adrenaline giving way to something colder and more exacting — the particular clarity that arrives once the immediate danger is over and the mind, finally free to do something other than survive, turns instead to accounting. She had catalogued, without meaning to, every small tell she'd missed over the preceding four days: the way Eli had go...