Absolution (Scattered Stars: Evasion Book 3) by Glynn Stewart

Author:Glynn Stewart [Stewart, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing
Published: 2023-06-19T16:00:00+00:00

“It’s up to you,” EB told his weapons tech as the three of them waited by the cargo airlock. “It’ll make things a lot less iffy for Zelda and draw attention away from the fact that Trace and I vanished, but I know it’s asking a lot.”

Reggie chuckled, leaning on the case containing his combat armor and assault cannon.

“Boss, I don’t like cops,” he conceded. “But we are a long damn way from anywhere there might happen to be outstanding warrants for me. And, well”—he shrugged—“it’s not like I haven’t talked to cops before.

“Telling them the truth, mind, that’s a touch new on me.”

“You’ll stay and help them, then?” Trace asked.

“Of course, kid,” Reggie told her. The look he gave EB suggested that even if he hadn’t been planning on it, Trace’s heartfelt ask might have changed his mind.

EB’s kid was getting dangerous and she didn’t even realize half of it.

“We’re docking in thirty seconds,” the mercenary tech by the airlock told them. “I’m in their system, and it will show that the cargo airlock attached but stayed closed. I’ll be able to open it exactly eighty-three centimeters without triggering their scanners.”

She chuckled.

“Might be able to do a bit more, but that should be plenty for you two to walk through and is ninety-nine percent certain. I have the cameras on a loop, so you should be able to clear the cargo port without being spotted.

“Once you’re in the main station, you’re on your own—but really, we’re just trying to disconnect you from Blade and our arrival.”

“Thank you,” EB told her. “And tell your boss thanks as well. She knows, but the repeat doesn’t hurt.”

“Thanks help; money is better,” the mercenary told him with a grin. “Past experience says we’re going to be spending a lot of time very bored over the next two days. I hope the skipper negotiated hazard pay with you!”

It had taken EB flat-out refusing to let her help without him paying her for Zelda to take money for this whole mess. Between the bounties for Breanna and her people and the fees for smuggling weapons into a civil war, he was relatively cash-flush at that moment. He could afford her services—but she seemed to still feel she owed them for trying to capture Trace.

“Contact,” the tech barked. “We’re locking on… Connected. Opening the lock now—you’ll have about thirty seconds to get through.”

“Ready,” EB confirmed, glancing at Trace.

“Ready,” she replied.

“Go!”

The lock slid open. While the gap was, as warned, barely eighty centimeters wide, it was for the full height of the four-meter-across cargo lock. There wasn’t much squeezing involved for EB, let alone Trace.

Then the lock closed silently behind them and they were alone in a dark cargo dock.

“So, this is creepy,” Trace observed.

“Sensors don’t think there’s anyone here, so the lights aren’t on,” EB reminded her. “Let’s go. Evasion shouldn’t be far.”

He’d have to check with the crew—he wasn’t running a dictatorship, after all—but the only next step he saw was heading back to Denton and Icem High Home Station.

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