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helicopter back to Aerial Island Tours and just… took it out. I had ten men over there.”

“Aw, fuck. Logan. I’m so sorry, dude. I’m so fucking—”

“It wasn’t me though,” he says, cutting me off. His voice hard, and low, and very fucking pissed.

“I’m gonna get them for this. Those guys were my friends. They trusted me. They—”

“OK,” I say. “OK. Calm down. We’ll figure—”

“Fuck you, calm down! I want heads rolling off platters. I want Megan to give me every single GPS coordinate for every fucking island they have. I will take out every goddamned place. I will—”

“Logan,” I yell. “Listen to me. OK? I get it, you’re angry. And we’re gonna take care of this. Very

close to figuring this out. I just need a little more time.”

“With Megan, you mean?”

“Look, man. She knows something. Something big. And I’ve almost got her to trust me.”

“Trust you? Oh, I trust you. But what I want to know right now is why are you trusting her?”

“Because she’s… different. She’s not a part of the plan I told you about.”

“Then she doesn’t know shit.”

“She does. She just doesn’t know she does.”

“Dude, you’re blind. You’re insane. Lust has gone to your head. She knows everything. She set you

up. You’d be dead right now if you didn’t call me asking for guns a few days ago.”

“I know. I owe you—”

“That’s not what I’m saying, OK? I’m telling you not to trust her. I’m telling you the only way out of

this now is one hundred percent retaliation.”

“Fine,” I say. “That’s fine. Tomorrow we blow up everyone. But we need her to do that. We need

her to get there. So just give me one more night. OK?”

Logan growls on the end of the phone. “One night. That’s it.”

And then the call drops.

CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR - MEGAN

I lie down on the sun lounger and look up at the sky. But just as I do that I hear a hum in the air.

Whales? Maybe? The underwater speaker is still turned on so there’s muted ocean sounds still being

piped through the sound system out here.

But it’s not whales. Not dolphins, either. Not the sea at all.

And that’s when I notice the hum is getting louder. Like something approaching very quickly.

And I see it.