Rain pounded the aft deck like a thousand fists, and the sky cracked open, bruised clouds spiraling toward the horizon.
“Flynn! Stop!” I shouted, my voice swallowed by the howling wind.
Below me, the navigation console glowed faintly, its screen flashing a course line that cut straight into the eye of the hurricane.
My fingers trembled as I swiped the flash drive’s hidden folder, the file titled “Override‑Code” blinking at me.
“You can’t,” Flynn hissed from the doorway, his silhouette a dark smear against the storm‑lit glass.
I typed the sequence—Alpha‑9‑Delta—watching the autopilot disengage with a soft, final beep.
The yacht shuddered, the engines coughing as they stalled, leaving us dead in the water, the hull groaning under the weight of the swelling sea.
“Now it’s just you and me,” I whispered, breath ragged, feeling the wet spray sting my cheeks.
Lightning illuminated the deck, casting fleeting shadows of the two of us—one desperate, one terrified.
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