Inherent Danger by Matt Lincoln

Author:Matt Lincoln [Lincoln, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-01-23T22:00:00+00:00

18

Jake

I was at the marina first thing the next morning, ready and willing to get the next leg of the diving mission underway. I got Wraith prepared and fueled up before I even saw Xavier head my way from his yacht. I felt a little bad for not being available for Doc’s medical exam of Declan Speirs yesterday afternoon, but Rosa had emailed me about all the details that the team would need to know going forward.

The wound on Declan’s head was consistent with the bruises they’d found on his legs from a fall, and it wasn’t anything verifiably sinister. But the gunshot wound was at close range from an older model 9mm Glock. Doc had reported that Declan had already been dead when the boat sank.

I didn’t know how to feel about that. I supposed, on the one hand, he didn’t have to live through the fear and terror of drowning, but getting shot and killed wouldn’t have been much better. I just hoped the poor man hadn’t suffered too long or too much. Then I realized that we’d have to tell his brother, and that made me feel worse about the whole thing.

Both Rosa and Doc got to the barn within a few minutes of Xavier showing up. Doc was smiling and looking very pleased with himself this morning.

“I take it your house-hunting days might be over?” I guessed.

“They most certainly are.” Doc was all smiles as we got ready to leave the marina and head back to the dive site. “Zaid and I will be moving in very soon, and to top it all off, he started at a primary school this morning. He’s going to be around a few other children, all learning English from excellently referenced educators. Things may finally start to fit neatly back as they should, as opposed to the mass hysteria that’s been my life for the past few months.”

It was good to hear him get his droll sense of humor and his future expectations back to where they had been. I glanced over at Rosa to see how she felt about it.

The more things change… she signed simply.

I grinned as I finished the comment in my own mind. But it was a reassuring measure that the team was returning to its original standards. Even Wraith herself seemed to be ready for the day’s mission as she moved through the water with great simplicity, speed, and efficiency. But I was aware enough to know that I only imagined most of that.

The sea out here was a little rougher than it had been the last few times that we’d been out. There was another storm on the horizon, and it looked a lot more perilous than a few days ago. The rain hadn’t started up yet, but I was anxious to get us into the wreckage and find the crew's bodies all the more now that I could see the weather coming in.

We decided that we’d maintain the two diver team with a rotating third, just in case one of us needed to rest in between dives.

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