A Plain Jane Book One by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-03T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 11

Jane

The hangar door opened in an instant, and she wasn’t expecting it. She’d thought she would have time. She’d assumed she would have to wait for Lucas to go over to the docking panel by the doors and use his armor to open it up. Yet they’d opened of their own accord.

Surprised by the suddenness of it all, Jane jumped with fright and, embarrassingly, tried to hide behind Lucas. He obviously noticed, because he shifted his head to the side and looked at her.

Hiding behind Lucas Stone… that wasn’t something Jane had ever thought she would be doing. Yet reality was contradicting her expectations here.

She felt a rush of exhilaration as the light from the hangar room outside filtered in. Her nerves sliced through her, blazing into her stomach and rushing down her back. She felt her breath quickening, her chest pumping up and down as she tried to hold herself still.

She was scared it would happen again. Not that she would be able to stop it if it did. If she got too frightened, wouldn’t it take control again? Whatever it was? The implant that Lucas had talked about? The one that was meant to be in her brain? Inside her actual brain?

Jane suddenly tipped her head to the side as a sharp slice of pain shot through her forehead, and she squeezed her eyes closed until it stopped.

… The implant.

The second she thought about it was the second the pain returned, and she clutched at her face.

“Come on,” she heard Lucas say.

Jane didn’t move immediately.

She couldn’t see what was outside. The light was too bright. For all she knew, there was a platoon of security officers, maybe some robots, perhaps even some flying drones. God, they probably had an entire army out there considering what she’d done to the Galactic Force. She could hardly blame them; what she’d done was horrible and not the kind of act you encouraged by your administrative staff.

“Jane,” Lucas said softly. He held his hand out to her.

She looked at it, and though she really wanted to grab it, she didn’t. Because he was Lucas Stone, right?

“Come on,” he tried again.

Without taking his hand, she followed him out of the ship.

The view that met her was breathtaking, for more than one reason.

Jane had seen the hangar bays above the Galactic Force Main Campus before. She’d seen spaceships too, of course, even though she’d never been on one as it had left Earth’s atmosphere. Yet that didn’t prepare her for the sight of the Central Shipyards. They were huge, just massive. She doubted she’d ever seen a structure so large. Though Lucas’ reconnaissance vessel wasn’t that small, it was dwarfed by some of the ships docked beside it – actual battlecruisers and long-range scientific vessels. They were the kinds of ships Jane had only ever seen on holoimages and never up close.

This was space, apparently, and she was starting to realize how little of it she’d seen.

There were also security guards. Galactic Force security guards.

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