A Star Pilot's Fearless Rebel: A Space Opera Romance by Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke

Author:Eva Delaney & Vivi Clarke [Delaney, Eva]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 27

Antares was turning on me after I had stood up for him, after we had nearly kissed, and after he had clearly wanted me. I wasn’t surprised. Love hadn’t been enough to keep anyone else loyal, and he was only horny.

So he was selling me out to redirect the men’s anger toward me and save himself. There was nothing I could do to stop him. If I tried to shut him up, the others would know I was hiding something, and I would still be screwed.

“I want to destroy the Supremacy. It’s the only reason I’m here,” Antares said, cool and calm. “I held back intel so that I would have to go with you on this mission.”

I blinked. He hadn’t withheld info from the general, just from us. That meant he was lying to the others right now. And that lie was going to make them hate him even more.

“But the general said I couldn’t bring Mr. Pancake,” he continued. “I tried to leave Star Keeper Base in the middle of the night to track Agent Winters myself. Leave you all floundering with incomplete info. Calpurnia stopped me. I said I’d join the mission if she helped me smuggle out Mr. Pancake.”

I gasped. Why was he covering for me?

“You put the rebellion at risk for a dog?” Rux said through clenched teeth.

“Not just any dog. A very good boy.”

“They’re all good boys,” Polaris murmured.

“You’ve got the crew turning on Cali over a dog?” Orion said.

“Shhh,” I said. “I don’t need your protection.”

“You don’t need it, but you’ve got it,” he snapped. “You always have.”

I rolled my eyes. “Why is following orders so difficult?”

Antares cut off the argument. “If you’re turning on Calpurnia, that’s on you. You had no basis for it.”

I inwardly cringed, because that wasn’t exactly true.

“You’re still an ass,” Orion snapped.

“Who’s a good boy?” Antares said in a singsong voice. I assumed he was talking to Mr. Pancake, but I couldn’t tell in the dark. He could be talking to Orion, and I chuckled at the thought.

Hamal laughed. “You have to admit, Rion, the dog is a joy to have around.”

That was what I had called him years ago. It was what our last team had called him. It felt strange to hear that intimacy from so long ago, as though the past was leaking into the present.

“Can we keep the dog, but space the man?” Orion grumbled.

“You already said that,” Rux said.

“And I’ll keep saying it until he’s gone!”

I expected Antares to respond with a challenge in that cold voice. Instead he said, “Who wants a tummy rub?”

Orion made a sound of disgust. I laughed despite myself.

“Come on, man,” Hamal said in his deep, soothing voice. “There’s nothing wrong with caring for an animal friend. Let him be and help finish up the ice cream before it melts in this power outage.”

Orion mumbled something I couldn’t hear.

“Why is there ice cream?” Rux said, always the sour one. “And not an ice cream flavored ingredient pack?”

“Because I snuck it on board,” Hamal said.

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