They Saved My Sister and Let Me Drown, So I Took Hollywood novel · Chapter 18 of 24
Chapter 18: Squall
At five in the afternoon on August fourteenth, the sea off Catalina was flat and gold, and I was sick over the rail.
"Better out than in," the captain said, without looking round.
She stood at the wheel of her boat, a thirty-eight-foot patrol cutter with a rescue ring on every side.
Her mate, a broad silent young man, was checking a rope for the third time.
Beck sat in the bow with a coil of line in his lap.
He hadn't spoken for an hour.
He didn't need to.
I came and sat beside him, wiping my mouth with the back of my hand.
"I told you not to come," I said.
"You did."
"And?" I asked.
"And I stood where you could see me."
I leaned my head on his shoulder for a moment, because there was nobody to see.
Two miles away, past a headland of dark rock, a white yacht lay at anchor with her lights coming on.
HALCYON, I could read, even from there, in letters a foot high.
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