Eye of the storm

the long version

She just had to do something Nicole didn't know quite how Chase Tarrant had managed to persuade her boss, Aston, to part with his new racing sloop. She was quite convinced, though, that it wasn't honestly. Although Aston didn't seem prepared to take any action, Nicole just wasn't going to sit idly by, especially when she knew Chase was going to race Enchantress from Florida to Barbados. By a fluke, Nicole got herself on board, pretending to be the crew. But that was only the first of a series of errors. Why was it, Nicole fumed, that Chase was always the winner?