The yacht sat on a short hook in Castries Harbour, white hull ticking against black water. Sunset had already spent itself on the Pitons. What remained was diesel warmth, warm salt, and music from the town coming late across the bay. In the cockpit, teak still held the day’s heat. Below, the cabin smelled of sunscreen, cold wine, and rope.Sienna Cole had chartered the boat for “a quiet sunset.” Twenty-six, the kind of money that booked silence and then could not stand it. The crew were ashore on her instruction, except they were not far — voices carried off the quay when the wind leaned the right way. That was the point.Reece Lang stepped down from the flybridge. Six-ten, dark-skinned, captain on paper, music producer when the season allowed. He had taken the wheel all afternoon without touching her. That, too, had been the point.“Crew’s on the dock,” he said. “They can hear a scream. They cannot see the cockpit unless they come back.”“Then don’t let me scream until you say,” she
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