Three Years Underwater Gambling My Life, His Punishment for Her Dog

I'm the only female commercial diver in the country. To pay off Joseph Delgado's debt, I made 499 descents in three years, a hundred meters down into slurry to work the pilings.

Every dive was a gamble with my life, and my body carries the damage that will never heal.

I was bleeding from every opening in my face and still couldn't bring myself to spend the money on the decompression chamber. I clutched the twenty thousand I'd just earned and rushed to Joseph, desperate to pay down the debt. That was when I heard him talking with Ruby Chase.