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Indiana
I couldn’t believe Tyler was standing next to that bastard Kane.
Tyler won’t arrest me . . . will he?
My heart pounded so hard, I felt every thump in my neck as I raced to reach my destination and get in the water before that boat caught up to me.
With every passing minute, they narrowed the gap between us.
I approached my anchoring point, and I peeled back on the engine. As the bow dipped into the water, the other boat drew up alongside.
The expressions on the two men at the helm couldn’t be any more different.
Kane flashed a triumphant grin like he’d already found the Siren’s Lure fortune.
Tyler, however, had his brows drilled together and an expression that was loaded with concern or disappointment. It was hard to tell which.
I pulled back on the engines again and cut them off, and their boat slid away from my view. A lovely silence settled over the bridge that seemed to amplify the pounding in my heart.
“Indiana?”
I spun to Tyler’s voice. He stood a few feet away from me.
“Hi,” I said, keeping my tone upbeat.
“What the hell are you doing?”
My shoulders sagged. “I had to do it. There’s a shipwreck out there called the Siren’s Lure, but the weather needs to be absolutely perfect to dive down there, and today was the day. But I don’t have my dive gear, and I needed equipment and—it was the last wreck Dad and I were?—”
I sucked in a wobbly breath.
“Hey.” He stepped up to me and opened his arms.
“I have to do this. For Dad, and me. I don’t know who I am anymore. I’m nothing.”
“Hey, shush.” He squeezed my cheek to his chest, and his heart pounded in my ear.
“Dad and I had been searching for this wreck for years.”
“I understand.”
I pushed back from him. “No, Tyler, you don’t. This is where we were last time when that bastard ruined our dive.”
“You crazy woman.”
I shoved back from him. “I’m not crazy.”
“No, you’re right. You’re not. You’re smart, and brave, and you drive me wild.”
I rolled my eyes. None of that was helpful.
“But your timing is terrible. Or maybe it’s my timing. Or Aria’s.”
“What?” I scrunched my nose at him.
He gripped my hand. “Come here, let me show you.”
I let him lead me outside. Kane stood on the other boat with one foot up on the siding. His mirrored sunglasses hid his eyes from me, but his grin told me he was loving every minute of this.
