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“That’s Calle.”

Despite everything, Hazel laughed.

The sound was brief, but we needed it.

Mom pointed toward the house.

“We are going to have a conversation about that gun later.”

Nathan smiled.

“I look forward to it.”

“No, you don’t.”

“No,” he admitted. “I really don’t.”

Storm turned back to Ward.

“Why would someone break into Blackwater after the Coast Guard sealed it?”

“To retrieve evidence,” he said.

“Or destroy it,” I added.

Ward looked at me.

“Yes.”

“The body was hidden behind a steel panel. Whoever entered through the eastern tunnel might not have known the chamber existed.”

“Possibly.”

“But now they do.”

No one responded.

A Coast Guard dive team had opened the chamber.

If someone was watching Blackwater, they knew the authorities had found something.

Or someone.

I touched Grandpa’s camera.

KEEP LOOKING.

Ben claimed he engraved those words because Grandpa would have liked them.

I wasn’t certain I believed him anymore.

Headlights appeared beyond the palms.

A dark Coast Guard vehicle turned into the drive and stopped behind the others.

I knew Ben before he stepped out.

Not by his face.