At a hundred and ninety feet, it wasn’t the kind of dive a person did on a lark. It was unsettling that someone had been there so soon after the explosion. Undine had said she’d call her boss, but he needed to tell her the clearing was not part of the investigation into the explosion. But I can’t imagine they have the resources to do much right now.” They’ll take the lead on any investigation into the digging. They retain sovereignty over all sunken vessels, and my understanding is Wrasse holds human remains. The wreck isn’t within the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary, so there aren’t any restrictions from NOAA or on our end. “I’ll pass the info up the line, but given that the evidence collected indicated the explosion was an accident, I doubt it. “Does the Coast Guard have any concerns or jurisdiction over the recent digging?” I can see how it would be good for clearing the hull of a big submarine, but it would be useless for our investigative purposes.” Something like that would have tossed all the small pieces we were trying to find. “Did you find out if anyone used a cable trencher to clear sediment during the search for pieces of the boat?” I contacted all the agencies that had a hand in the investigation of the Petrel accident, and no one’s dived on the wreck since the case was closed.” Caller ID showed it was the investigator from the Coast Guard returning his call. His cell phone rang, and he seized it like a life buoy. Luke should be grateful he was willing to provide the service instead of disappointed in his decision to pass her off on someone else. He didn’t want to answer Carlos’s abundant questions about Undine Gray, and he definitely didn’t want to discuss the woman’s father with the starstruck NOAA ichthyologist.Ĭarlos was totally jazzed about driving Undine home tomorrow, excited to have the chance to meet the big man’s daughter. How could the hurt in Undine’s eyes gut him when he had every right and reason to say what he had and cut the ties between them? Thank goodness Carlos had gone to dinner, leaving Luke alone in the small house owned by NOAA, which was available to employees when they visited Neah Bay for work. Luke paced the small house, wound tight and not sure why. But Luke… Dammit, she could have gone the rest of her life without facing his condemnation again and even longer without feeling an intense pull of attraction for a man who’d spent the last twelve years hating her. And Greg had been a source of unhappiness at work for a long time. It was understandable to be shaken by seeing a fragment from the explosion that had killed five people and almost killed her. She just wished the last item didn’t bother her so much.
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