Blue Burn (Starship for Sale Book 5) by M.R. Forbes

Author:M.R. Forbes [Forbes, M.R.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-08-17T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 20

In order to accommodate all of us in a single room, Keep had booked what the hotel called the Nebula Suite. Over four thousand square feet, it occupied the entire south side of the ninety-ninth floor, just one below the Universal Suite, which took up the entire one hundredth floor. With five bedrooms and three bathrooms, the Nebula Suite could sleep all of us with barely any doubling up, and offered amenities and perks unlike anything I had ever come close to experiencing on Earth.

Not that I would have time to experience it here. Despite the one hundred thousand electro cost for a single night, we only intended to be there for five to six hours at most. A major expense, to be sure, but it would be more than worth it if we succeeded in getting our warning to the Empress, and even more worth it if she both pardoned us for our prison escape and made sure Head Case was returned to us.

A long shot? Probably. But we didn’t have a whole lot of options. We’d already discussed and dismissed sending her the recording of Sedaya’s conversation with Neftal indirectly. There was no way to guarantee the stream would ever make it in front of her eyes, especially if the duke already had loyalists planted in the palace, ready to intercept anything that might cast suspicion his way. Other than that, as wanted fugitives, there was little else we could do to make sure she understood the danger except present it in person. And none of us were under any pretense that a live audience was guaranteed to end well.

But we had to try.

Entering the suite, it was hard not to be excited by everything it had to offer. The view was breathtaking, with full length windows wrapping around the corner of the open main living space, which was decorated in dark wood, gold, crystal, and fine rugs as though we were already inside the Empress’ palace. Fresh flowers were placed on every table, perfectly arranged, and an array of delicacies waited on a tiered centerpiece in the middle of the room, along with a few bottles of chilled champagne. An equally ornate corridor led to the bedrooms and bathrooms, and Druck and David took off down the hallway, eager to see everything. The rest of us stayed behind, more reserved than the newest member of our group and the mech pilot. We had gone from rags to riches, literally, inside of an hour.

All it had taken was nearly suffocating while being crushed together in a rolling coffin

“Well, we made it,” Matt said, walking over to one of the windows and looking out at the city. “A little worse for wear, and down a bunch of equipment. But we’re here.” He turned to me. “What’s with that box you had David pull from the pack for you?”

“Bill and George gave it to me. It was a gift,” I replied as Shaq squirmed out from under my coat, regaining his place on my shoulder.

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