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Harvey seriously considered throwing the boat’s owner over the side and let there only be five survivors.
God damn, but his shoulder hurt. And his knee where he’d caught it as he crashed to the deck.
Whatever happened to the old adage of captain being last off? Letting the man go down with his ship sounded pretty good at the moment. Harvey had spent as much time arguing with the guy as watching the waves. Too much time.
It had taken Harvey a while to realize the guy was mostly drunk, just used to hiding it well. He’d certainly seen it on Dad enough times—the “functional” drunk. It should have made Captain Dan far more susceptible to hypothermia, but perhaps his bulk buffered him.
Foolishly, Harvey thought that the self-proclaimed captain made a good distraction from the decaying con
