Anna's POV
If I can't be protected, I'll be useful.
I decide it the morning after the sea wall, lying in bed listening to my father's boat cough and catch out on the water. Evan wants to put himself between me and every danger, wants to stand guard and take the weight alone, and I understand it, it's love and it's fear and it's the way he's built. But I'm not going to be the girl who gets stood in front of. I've spent my whole life being underestimated, the fish girl nobody credits with anything, and the one thing I've learned from all of it is that people talk in front of things they've decided don't matter, and I've turned that into the sharpest tool I have. Evan can smell danger in the dark. But I can find things out. I've been finding things out for weeks, and I found more than he di
