Phantom Prospect - Alex Archer [107]
Annja smiled at him. “You’re crazy, you know that?”
“I’m being serious.”
Annja looked out at the ocean. Hunter’s team was really progressing on the dive site. Each day they were bringing up more and more loot that would make them all wealthy beyond their wildest expectations.
But it wasn’t what Annja wanted.
At least, not right now.
“I can’t stay,” she said sadly.
“Why not?”
Annja looked at Cole. “It’s not that I don’t care for you. You know that’s not the case. But I’m not in a place yet where I can say for sure what my life is supposed to be. Maybe in that respect I’m jealous of you for having come so close to death—weird as that sounds.”
“It does sound pretty weird.”
“But you know what I mean. You have a clearer view of what your life needs to be. My view, my perspective, they’re still muddled. And until the time that I can figure it out, if I can figure it out, I won’t be much good to anyone. And the last thing I want to do is hurt you, Cole.”
He took a breath and nodded. “I guess I can understand that. I just hope that when you finally do decide, you’ll come back.”
“Maybe I will.”
Cole nodded. “In that case, would it be too much if I asked you for one last kiss before you take off for wherever you’re going next?”
It wasn’t.
ISBN: 978-1-4268-7517-5
PHANTOM PROSPECT
Special thanks and acknowledgment to Jon Merz for his contribution to this work.
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Epilogue