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Shit.
Cutting the engine, I didn’t bother dropping anchor. Darting through the door, I skidded on the deck and grabbed the speargun I’d placed by the railing.
Breathing hard, I stopped beside Neri.
She glanced at me, her ice-blue eyes churning with torment.
“Iyi misin?”
She nodded with a wince, knowing that phrase. “I’m okay.”
The ocean rocked beneath our feet as The Fluke bobbed untethered. In the dark, I had no idea if we were close to an island or about to scrape over a reef. But we were far enough away...
“Ona ne yapmami istiyorsun? Söyle bana, yapacagim.” My native tongue came freely, almost as if by embracing the darkness inside me, I became the man I’d been running from all this time. Cursing myself a little, I repeated, “What do you want me to do to him, askim? Name it and I’ll do it.”
“What? What the fuck?” Ethan spat. A streak of blood where Neri had cut his cheek with the knife glistened in the solar light from the cabin. Starlight and moonlight fought with the yellow glow, casting everything monochrome and merciless.
Ethan glared at both of us. “Where the hell am I? Where the fuck is Cooper?” He squirmed in his plastic tie-binds. “Why the fuck am I tied up?”
Something switched inside me.
The control I’d clung to over my temper.
The smothering of my rumbling rage.
It all snapped.
Red mist.
Vicious hate.
Without a thought, I brought the speargun up, aimed, and pressed the trigger.
Ethan howled as the harpoon shot through the meaty part of his calf. The string from the harpoon and the gun dangled between us, swaying in the night.
He bent forward, clutching at his bleeding leg, his bound hands quickly becoming a massacre. “What the fuck, you stupid cunt! Fuck!”
Neri hadn’t even jumped.
Hadn’t looked away.
Didn’t react like she normally would.
And that broke yet another piece of me because the innocent girl, with her heart full of purity and goodness, had been shattered. She clutched her knife as if she was moments away from driving it into her rapist’s heart.
Dropping the speargun, I stepped into her and wrapped my hand around her much smaller one.
Ethan continued to howl and curse.
I tuned him out.
My entire attention locked on the girl I loved more than anything.
She flinched at the contact.
Her eyes met mine.
And a crack appeared. A single crack in her façade as tears welled. Tumbling into my arms, she let me catch her, cradle her. Her spine rippled with sobs, and I hugged her hard enough to suffocate all the bad things inside her.
