When I Wake
Chapter One
Dugan Gallagher sat in the small jumbled office where he spent his
days, with his feet propped up on the desk, tilted back in his chair
so he could see the harbor.
He wore his usual costume of khaki work shirt, khaki shorts, and
topsiders, about as formal as he ever got since quitting his job as
a stockbroker ten years ago. Of course, the nice thing about being a
business owner was that he got to set the dress code. And this was
Key West besides. Even the lawyers came to work dressed this way,
and kept a suit hanging in their offices for the times they needed
to go into court.
Watching the Sea Maid put out with her current cargo of tourists who
wanted to dive a wreck, he felt pretty good. All his captains and
dive instructors had shown up today, which meant he, Dugan
Gallagher, didn't have to get wet. Which was just fine with him. He
might live on an island and have an office on a harbor, and make his
living from boats, but he hated to get wet. Period. The bathroom
shower was his maximum preferred water exposure.
He also preferred to stay holed up in his tiny office as far away
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