Searching for the Ghost I Killed

It all started with those four words Cormac sent right before he vanished into the deep: "I want to go home."

For five years, Elena took over his mantle as a deep-sea salvage expert, scouring those same dark waters for any trace of him. She searched until her own luck ran out.

As her husband and the executor of her estate, the lawyer sat me down after the accident.

"Mrs. Rhodes revised her will fourteen times," he said, his voice as dry as the parchment in his hands. "The final version has one specific directive."