Beneath the Surface (Dive Team Investigations, #1)

by Lynn H. Blackburn

They stared each other down. This must be what it had felt like to be a cowboy in a standoff. Except at the moment he was the only one with a weapon. Not that he would use it on the no-good piece of trash in front of him. He wasn’t worth a bullet.

“You can let it drive you away from him or you can let it drive you to him, Leigh,” she would say. “I let it drive me to him. And he was faithful.”

There’s no perfect relationship or perfect job or perfect house that will somehow make your life easy. What throws us for a loop is when life is hard in ways we weren’t prepared for. Divorce. Illness. Disability. Money problems. Rebellious kids. Reporters who blow undercover ops. Friends who don’t have the good sense to see they are messing up something really good that has fallen in their lap and they’d better fix it before it’s too late.”

Leave it to Gabe to drop some deep truth and then end it with a jab.

“I guess so,” she said. “I don’t have any answers, Ryan. I’m starting to talk to him again. I think he’s listening, but sometimes I’m not sure what to say.” “I don’t think he cares so much about what we say. I think he mostly just wants us to talk to him.”