The world spun around Tessa. Charles suddenly stopped talking right as the echo of gunshots and screams kept ringing in her head, bouncing inside her skull without mercy. Her body shook beyond her control. She tried to tell herself it was just the cold wind at the dock, but she knew that lie wouldn’t fool anyone, least of all herself.

Her eyes were locked on Charles’ body collapsed on the deck, no longer moving. The blood that had once belonged to her father, and now also to Charles, felt ...