SINFUL DESIRES
When she surfaced, Nikolai was on the deck.
He had watched the descent from the monitor he had set up, which tracked the acoustic marker she wore. He had been required to watch it, she had learned this from the safety protocols they had filed, but there was something in the way he was looking at the water when she surfaced that was not required.
“Eighty-two meters,” he said. “Four minutes, sixteen seconds.”
“Eighty meters was the target,” she said. “The descent ran long.”
“You did not seem rushed.”