Chapter 1604

Chapter 1604:

Frowning, Hardy set his drink down and strode over to her. “What’s wrong?”

She hastily wiped at her eyes, forcing a shaky smile. “It’s nothing. Just lost in thought. Feeling a little down.”

Hardy exhaled, the sound a mixture of a sigh and resignation. “I told you, I’ve got your back. You don’t have to carry everything alone.”

Tracy glanced up at him, her fingers still swiping away the last of her tears. “When you fished me out of the ocean, did you ever think I would turn into this much of a headache?” Hardy’s mind drifted back to that day.

He could still see Tracy—clinging to a broken hunk of plastic, barely conscious, her body bobbing with the waves. Even from a distance, he knew she was on the verge of letting go.

He had been out on a rented skiff, just a guy trying to enjoy a quiet day of fishing when fate intervened.

left at the mercy of the elements. By some miracle, she had found that debris and

had kept her alive.

the face and

to become the target

recover—physically, yes, but more than that, she had clawed her way out of the darkness that had nearly

trauma didn’t just fade. It lingered, festered. And in Tracy, it had hardened into a smoldering anger, a hunger for revenge that wouldn’t let

together. Now, she felt like a daughter he hadn’t asked for, but one he couldn’t stop worrying about. “You’re

him a sharp look. “I miss Elyse. And I

Elyse say a

our

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know she misses

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