Chapter Nineteen
Coming home to an empty house was not something Sean looked forward to doing. He loved his job with the coast guard in this part of the world. He liked the fact that he was working a job that would give him the sense of normalcy that he wanted, that he needed. It was a job that wouldn’t take him away from Annie for weeks and months at a time.
The chance of coming across a threat had dropped, in all probability, by ninety percent. Okay, maybe eighty. Even though he was no longer patrolling seas filled with pirates and terrorists looking to blow them out of the water, unsavory criminals still used the water in the San Juan Islands to transport a number of illegal goods. More importantly, he was holding it together, not dreading each moment of every day, waiting for the oth
