Page 80 of Hidden Depths

A knot settled in her stomach.

That evening...

Ivy downloaded the day's photographs onto her laptop.

Hundreds of images filled the screen.

Sunsets.

Dolphins.

Flying fish.

Frank and Rose laughing together.

Scott pretending to teach Mark how to fish.

She smiled.

Then stopped.

One photograph caught her attention.

She zoomed in.

Not on Sea Whisper.

On the horizon behind her.

A tiny gray shape.

The trawler.

She clicked to the next image.

It was closer.

Another.

Closer again.

Her smile slowly disappeared.

"They're moving."

Outside...

The Pacific stretched endlessly beneath the moon.

On the bridge...

Storm opened Grandpa's logbook.

Another folded page slipped free.

She unfolded it.

Only one sentence.