By nine o'clock that evening, the Pacific night had descended over Broad Beach, cool and magnificent beneath a canopy of brilliant, diamond-like stars. On the sheltered sand dunes below the redwood deck, Alex had built a roaring bonfire using weathered driftwood and cedar logs gathered from the beach. The flames leaped five feet into the crisp ocean air, crackling with golden embers that cast a warm, radiant circle of light…
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