Salt Kiss novel · Chapter 15 of 24
Chapter 15: Salt Water
The hall emptied at half past four, one coat at a time, each member stopping to press Skye's hand.
Lorna sent the last of them out and locked the front door with a flourish.
"Out," she said to the three of them.
"I'm going to sit in my office with the lights off and eat a sleeve of crackers."
"Lorna," said Skye.
"Go and be useless somewhere.
"You've got until the first of the sun, and you will not do anything helpful until then."
She shut the office door.
Skye stood in the middle of the floor with the ledger still against her hip.
She looked tired in a way Nolan had not seen, lines at the corners of her eyes, her braid half undone.
"If we lose," she said, "this is the last night this building is ours."
"We won't lose," said Ford.
"You don't know that."
"No."
She set the ledger on the bar.
"The river stairs," she said.
"Both of you.
"Now."
The river door opened onto a slick stone landing, and the stairs ran down into the black water of the Cooper.
The tide was high and slow.
Lights from the far bank shook on the surface.
The rest of this chapter is part of the paid portion of the series. Chapters 1–12 of Salt Kiss are free to read — start from the beginning, then unlock the rest with coins in the app.
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