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Salvage Rights

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Mara hauls herself onto her boat and finds the radio wires cut clean. Vares planned this. A second skiff idles nearby, and a woman on its deck calls across the water: "Come aboard. We'll explain. Or you can keep diving alone until this wreck takes you too."

Mara steps onto the skiff. The woman shows her a contract her husband signed, agreeing to sink the ship for an insurance payout, a deal that went wrong and killed everyone aboard. Vares isn't here to rob her. They're his old partners, here to bury the evidence before it surfaces. The man Mara mourned wasn't only a victim. Now she has to decide what to do with that.

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