Angel 6.0: Escape (Space Opera Romance) (Angel 6.0, Book 2) by Travis Luedke

Author:Travis Luedke [Luedke, Travis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2015-04-20T23:00:00+00:00

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Chapter 8

They had arranged a bunk for me in what used to be a storage room. I held onto my grief long enough to lock the door and turn out the lights. When I finally released the torrent of emotions welled up inside me, I bawled myself to sleep.

Wisely, they left me alone.

I assumed no one cared what I was going through, trying to realign my life again, trying to figure out the point of my useless existence. Yet again I had pinned my world on the life of another. Now I was lost with the loss of him.

I crawled inside my misery and did not want to come out, ever. If the hallway outside my door had been anywhere near the airlock I’d have walked into space and ended it. I hated myself for not forcing Jason to hide in the ducts instead of letting him talk me into flying headlong into the fray. I hated myself for not taking vengeance on his murderers. I hated myself for not being strong enough to tell Jason the truth. I would never know how he felt about the real me, the Angel he never knew.

I realized then what my problem was, and the solution. Love. If I was to live much longer, I had to stop loving people. They were liars, backstabbers, selfish creatures who had no care in the world but for themselves, and their selfish pursuits. I couldn’t survive another Jason in my life – if I was ever lucky enough to find anyone else like him.

Going to the bathroom, I tripped over a bottle of water someone left at my door. That was the sum of my worth to these people: a shower, a meal and a bottle of water. I was an unwelcome guest aboard a ship full of liars who wouldn’t tell me who they were, what they were doing, and how they acquired this tech that shouldn’t exist.

Hours turned into days. There was no sense of time aboard a ship that had no lights-out cycle. I only knew my endless grief, and eventually, I had to eat, though I didn’t want to. I wanted to die.

Knock, knock, knock. “It’s been three days, Angel. Why don’t you come out and join me for a meal.”

I didn’t say a word but my stomach spoke for me, growling and churning. I stood and came out into the hallway to meet him. It seemed the cruelest joke in the universe, a man who looked exactly how Jason would have looked if he’d lived a few more years. Cesar was handsome in all the same ways I had appreciated Jason, only older, more confident, and wiser.

“We have more of the same, chicken soup. It’s hot and salty, and goes down real smooth with oyster crackers. If you can get through the soup, I have a stash of rum you can try. I’m not above bribery to get you out of this room and back among the living.”

I pulled my hair out of my face and looked at him without a word.

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