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.

he learned that she had been caught in a rip current, sucked out to sea, and left at the mercy of the elements. By some miracle, she had found that

by the sheer luck that had kept her alive. Surviving such a harrowing

after staring death in the face and surviving,

become the target of

that, she had clawed her way out of the darkness that had nearly

hardened into a smoldering anger, a hunger for revenge that wouldn’t

a hand over his face. He had saved her once, and somehow, that had tethered them together. Now, she felt like a daughter he

look. “I miss Elyse. And I

brow. “Funny, I haven’t heard Elyse say a word about that. What makes you so

smirked. “It’s our bond. You wouldn’t get

Cⲟntent ⲟriginally frⲟm gⲁl??ν???⫸???

you know she misses you, why not just go see

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