Fatal Tides

Category: Thriller

A knock at the door changed everything.

He had been waiting for her for what felt like an eternity.

She smiled, but it did not reach her eyes.

He was the kind of man who kept his word, even when it cost him.

The letter was still on the table, unopened, as it had been for three days.

The market was bustling with merchants, their voices a chorus of bargains and boasts.

The stars that night seemed closer than they had any right to be.

Some doors, once opened, can never be closed again.

The end.

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