Chapter 5An orange glow streaked its way over a falling, obsidian sky. Shadows hit the buildings as though ghosts had come alive. Cane’s Inlet looked like a spooky postcard brought to life, and Noah wished he could savor the quiet moment, hide himself within it. Or better yet, bottle it. Sell it on the shore this summer and make his own fortune, not have to rely on others. How easily he wished he could forget all that troubled him, the mysteries swirling around him and threatening his undoing. How, with such beauty in this world, could there be evil, agendas, motives living beneath the bounty nature had given Cane’s Inlet?
He was encouraged, though, of the other possibilities that existed in the universe. Namely, romance, or dare he think deeper, the elusive notion called love? Such was w
