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Chapter 19 - Bitterly Seasoned
Sarah's eyes danced over Summer and the now nothing but a dot of Seth. This was truly hell for her. She had practically destroyed a relationship because of her own greed. It's just she had never had that kind of loving relationship before, not with her boyfriend and not even with her parents. She was dieing for someone to love her and when Seth came along, in his cute caring and gentlemanly ways, it was everything she had prayed for. She wanted him to be happy and if that girl, standing confused and scared on the dock, did that for him, then that was alright, her heart was broken, but at least she had her whole life ahead of her and she would find another Seth. Sarah smiled and a ray of sun hit her face from the now cloudy sky.
She turned and walked off the docks. The wood and sand cracked under her feet, it would take some time, but she would get over this and move on.
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"She's coming," Zak whispered, in his eyes an insane passion for revenge. Because of the bitch he would have a record and slander his already mild chances to get into university.
"That bitch destroyed my life."
"Don't worry Zak, will get her," on of his followers said, sharing his dark passion.
They had only spend one night in jail and as the rich ones always do, he and his friends made bail easily, throwing the criminals back on the street, to commit a crime far worse then what they had done before, this time it was murder!
Now Zak and his friends were sober and out for revenge, waited down an ally, an ally where the California sun didn't enter, the perfect place to kill her.
Sarah obliviously walked down the sidewalk slowly heading right to there trap, right to her death.
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Summer glanced around franticly, as light raindrops fell from the sky. She had no time to think rationally. It was all or nothing, Seth or nothing. She jumped out onto a random sailboat, that sailboat just happened to be Zak's.
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Sandy walked into the boardroom at the Newport Groups main building. The usually calm Sandy was not calm, he was so angry he single handedly could beat up the fourteen men sitting around that table himself and Sandy had considered that, really considered that!
"All of you get the hell out," Sandy yelled to the quiet and calm executives in the boardroom.
They just smirked and laughed.
Sandy reached into his pocket for an envelope, forming a tight grip around the thick papers inside; he pulled it out and slid it down the large table, it landing perfectly in front of Caleb.
He raised an eyebrow and flipped it over, now seeing why the executives had to get the hell out, because it was a letter from Hailey.
Caleb's heart skipped a beat and as he opened the letter his heart almost stopped. The letter contained everything he was afraid Hailey had saw. Everything he had done, the money laundering, bribing and yes even murder!
"Everyone get the hell out!" Caleb screamed, the room emptying out in a matter of seconds.
With the door shut, the windows closed and when no other sound could leak into the wrong ears Sandy spoke.
"Murder Caleb... Murder!"
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Jumping onto the small boat she thought back to that one lesson Seth had given her. Which rope to pull, when too raise the sail, when too... Well she should probably start with the rope that is holding her to the dock, she thought to herself.
After releasing the rope from the dock and safely securing a life jacket, she had stolen from another boat; she pushed off from the dock, the light rain growing slightly harder, but a little rain couldn't stop her from getting to Seth, but it would try.
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"I did this for you."
"For me," Sandy gasped in anger.
"For this family."
"You have set everything in place to destroy this family!" Sandy shouted.
"How so?" Caleb replied.
"You have driven your family away. Hailey may never come back, Kirsten could be charged with murder Caleb, murder! Your wife and her daughter are living in a castle and when the feds take it away they will have nothing. Your friends, family all broken, it will never be the same again Caleb."
"Then I guess this is the golden age," Caleb laughed.
Sandy swung, hitting Caleb in the same eye that Jimmy had once blackened, knocking the old man to the floor.
"The rope is about to snap Caleb and as soon as it does you will have single handedly put a gun to our heads, and single handedly pulled the trigger!"
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Seth could feel the storm in his bones, sailing as much as he use to, he knew the ocean waves well and what they could do if they grew angry. There was another port ahead of him, still a long ways away, but if he picked up the pace he could get there by nightfall. If he didn't he would have to turn back, he had had enough pain from that place, Sarah and hearing Summer's voice, it's all in my mind, he thought.
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Zak's boat was faster then Seth's, but it helped if you didn't go in circles. Looking at the compassed she plotted her hopefully short trip, just as Seth had taught her.
"I hope I'm doing this right," She sighed.
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Caleb stood from the floor and stared right into Sandy's eyes.
"I did this for my family."
"And destroyed us all," Sandy said, finishing Caleb's sentence.
"What do you want Sandy."
"You will tell Kirsten."
"No," Caleb objected.
"Then the copy of that envelope and every document that came with it will be sent to the feds.
"You wouldn't."
"You have lost all control Caleb, tell her."
Sandy walked out of the boardroom. Caleb falling back to the ground, he had lost control long before this moment, the gun was at the heads of his friends and family, and he would be the one pulling the trigger, there had to be away for him and him alone to take the bullet.
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The Summer breezes hall shot up over a huge wave, the boat jumping out of the ocean for a second and landing heavily. If this got any worse this would be by far the worst storm he had been in, he had to go back.
Seth glanced over his shoulder and saw another boat in the distance, struggling, but getting closer. He quickly reached into one of his bags and pulled out binoculars, looking past the rough waves to the other boat, he almost fell into the rocky oceans because he recognized it.
It was Zak's boat chasing him and he was probably out for revenge. Seth knew that if Zak caught up to him, Zak might kill him and out hear in these stormy seas he would get away with it. He couldn't turn around he had to sail, sail as fast has he could.
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Summer was excited to see the Summer Breeze, but at the same time scared out of her mind, trying to keep the boat in tacked and headed in the right direction. She had no idea what to do in a storm.
And at that moment, a wave hit from behind, rocking the boat and flipping it over, throwing her over board. No rescue team would get there in time; no one could save her, but Seth.
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Seth blinked hard when he saw Zak's boat flip. The reason he had to blink so hard was because he didn't know if he should save the struggling body of Zak, floating away from his boat in the distance.
Seth didn't need to blink again. He wasn't the kind of person who would let someone die, even if there was a chance they would kill him. Seth had to live with himself, if he made it out of the storm alive.
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Summer struggled to breath in the salty ocean. This is it, she thought to herself, she died for love, and the one she loved was meters away and not saving her.
Before another thought could cross her mind a hand reached and attached itself to her life jacket. The now stronger and more confident Seth pulled Summer out of the water, still having no idea that it wasn't Zak.
Laying her down on the comforting surface of the boat, Seth froze when he looked at what he had just saved. Summer managed a smile before there lips where pressed together. The kiss bitterly seasoned by ocean water, but that didn't matter, what mattered was they were finally together.
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Sarah was only steps away from the ally and possible her death.
"Grab her, get her now," Zak instructed as the hands grabbed the girl before she could walk by. Unfortunately, no one saw the girl being plucked from the street, except an old woman that had once given Summer the best advice of her life.
Sarah was clubbed over the head hard with a large stone.
"Hurry up you shit heads," Zak yelled to his followers.
They tucked Sarah's unconscious body into a large bag, one of the bigger boys throwing the bag over his shoulders with ease.
They walked in a large group towards the docks.
"What are we going to do with her now Zak?" One of the boys asked.
"Your going to put her on my boat, I'm going to sail to nowhere and give her a burial at sea."
"Zak that's murde..."
"Shut up, where almost there."
"Where the hell is my boat!" Zak yelled at his friends. "My boats gone."
"Zak," The guy carrying Sarah's body said, "We might have other problems."
He set the body at the end of the dock as police cars screeched to a stop, police flooding from them and running down to the docks.
"I'm still getting my revenge," Zak screamed as he kicked the bag over the end of the dock and into the ocean.
"Get on the ground!" An officer yelled, Sarah's body sinking deeper and deeper until it hit the sharp ocean bottom.
The boys all got on the ground except for Zak.
"Zak they have guns."
"I don't care."
Zak leapt off the dock and into the water. The splash was followed by a gunshot and Zak floated dead in the water.
"There's a girl drowning down there," One of the boys said, there voice shaking.
An officer moved to the end of the dock, seeing a bag deep in the ocean. Handing is belt and gun to his partner; he dove in and swam to the bottom. Breaking the surface of the rough water with the bag, looked inside it to find no one.
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Sarah unzipped the bag from under the waters surface, holding her breath for her life. Then she swam under the docks, surfacing only once for air and arrived at a park beside the docks. Coming up on shore she sat on a bench, the old lady who had saved her by phoning the police, moving towards her from behind.
"Are you alright," She asked, tears flowing from her face.
Sarah turned around, seeing the old lady she stood and hugged her tightly.
"I'm fine grandma."
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Summer tightly gripping the mast of the boat, Seth fine-tuning their direction, they arrived late at night. Parking the boat, eating and getting a hotel room, they walked into the small comfortable room.
"I'll be right back," Summer said as she kissed Seth hard. "While I'm gone, don't run away on me."
Summer of course came back with food and set it on the table.
"Where going back to Newport Seth."
"What?"
"Seth I drove hours and hours, got on a sail boat, barely knowing how to work the dam thing, oh ya and almost drowned. Come home."
Seth sighed.
"Alright."
Summer looked into Seth's eyes.
"I love you Seth."
"I love you too."
They kissed sweetly, before Seth parted their lips to speak.
"So back to Newport tomorrow."
"Yep," Summer smiled, "But for now..."
Summer pushed Seth onto the only bed in the room.
"I thought you said the Summer breeze would be the only thing I would be riding for a while."
"Well, it's been a while, besides you've been riding her for long enough this summer, it's my turn."
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