She Raised Us on Our Dead Parents' Settlement, So We Crashed Her Gala novel · Chapter 21 of 40
Chapter 21: The Marina Office
Dell's POV
Sabina called from the garage in Cleveland at noon, and she was alive, and she was laughing and crying at once.
The auditor had the books.
The gray sedan had followed her to the on-ramp and then turned off, and she never saw it again.
I drove to the marina that evening to tell Stefan, because he had earned that much.
I told myself that was the only reason.
The storm came in off the lake at dusk, faster than the forecast said.
By the time I parked, the sky over the water was the color of a bruise, and the wind was bending the masts.
Stefan stood on the main dock in a slicker, hauling lines.
"Go inside," he shouted over the wind. "I'll be right there."
I ran for the office.
He came in four minutes later, soaked, shaking the rain from his beard, and shut the door against the gale.
The power went out a second after.
It was suddenly very dark, and very loud.
Rain hammered the tin roof.
"That's the causeway flooding," Stefan said, in the dark. "The road will be underwater in ten minutes. You're not driving anywhere."
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