Allison’s POV

I parked three blocks away and killed the engine, hearing it die to a hum at first, and then to nothing, and then it merged with the night.

I sat in the sedan like a shadow in the midnight drizzle while my breath fogged the glass. Up close, the docks looked nothing like the busy scene I expected. There were no dramatic cranes silhouetted against the dark sky. Just hulking boxes, sodium lamps that turned everything yellow and flat, and a couple other small noises that sounded ...