Forbidden Game: Seducing the Bride at the Altar novel · Chapter 22 of 32
Chapter 22: Breath
I was over the rail before anybody said my name.
I hit the water with my legs and was a tail by the time I was under.
I didn't follow the buoy line.
I followed the hose.
It hung straight down into the dark, slack and dead, and I went down it with a purpose.
Twenty feet.
Forty.
How long can a man hold his breath at ninety feet in a dry suit?
Jasper had told me once, on the houseboat, while he was teaching me knots.
Not long. And it's worse if he's scared.
Sixty feet.
Seventy.
The stern rose up white out of the black.
His light was still on.
It lay on the floor of the wheelhouse, in the open doorway, pointing at nothing.
I came in through the doorway where the door had been.
He was on his knees on the wheelhouse floor.
His yellow helmet was full of water to the chin.
He had one hand braced on the old wheel and the other closed in a fist against his chest.
His eyes were open.
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