The policeman directs his conversation directly at me. “The coroner’s report has come back from the crime scene, Mr. Stanton.” I lift my chin as I prepare myself. “The search has been changed from one for a missing person to a body retrieval.” I stand still, unable to react. “There were over three and a half liters of blood on the boat and it has been ruled that nobody could survive that amount of blood loss.” I close my eyes as my world comes to an end. “I’m sorry, Mr. Stanton, but your fiancée has been ruled deceased.”
