Buccaneer: Starship Renegades, Book 4 by S.J. Bryant

Author:S.J. Bryant
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Saffron Bryant
Published: 2020-01-11T08:33:20+00:00

CHAPTER 16

"Guards!" Kari bellowed. She ran from Wren's prone body, snatched hold of the bars, and tried to shake them free. They didn't even rattle. "Guards! Get in here!" She waved at the cameras in the roof and tried to tear the door loose. It didn't move.

"What's going on?" Gerbil said.

Kari glanced at him and then at Wren. "She's dying."

"What?" Gerbil scurried across the room and knelt at Wren's side. He pressed his finger against her throat and leaned in close to her mouth. "What happened?"

"She took poison," Aydin said.

The others stared at Wren's body and said nothing.

"What? Where did she get poison from? What sort was it?"

Kari barely heard them. She needed to get the guards so they could give Wren every kind of antidote they had. Her heart hammered her chest and her vision narrowed to a thin tunnel.

"Guards!" she roared.

The other prisoners looked from her to Wren with wide eyes, edging away to the other side of the cell.

"How do we get them here?" Kari turned on Gerbil.

He clutched Wren's hand in his fingers and shook his head.

"How?" Kari said, her voice echoing off the walls.

"Just keep yelling," Gerbil said. "They'll come."

Kari spun back to the bars and gripped the cold metal. She put all her strength into trying to wrench them apart. "You ugly bastards. Get down here and help us!" She screamed and swore and promised every kind of punishment she could think of on their captors if they didn't appear. An eternity later a single man sauntered through the door. He didn't look happy to see Kari.

"What?" he said.

"She's dying." Kari jabbed her finger at Wren. She couldn't burst into tears, and she couldn't try to kill this man. Right now he was Wren's best chance of survival.

"Right," he said. "Pull the other one."

"Dammit, Randy," Gerbil said. "She's taken something."

As soon as Gerbil spoke, Randy's expression changed and he stepped close to the bars. "What do you mean she took something? She didn't have anything."

"She must have smuggled it," Gerbil said. "Her pulse is weak. She needs an antidote."

Randy fumbled at his belt and pulled out a communicator. He scrambled with the buttons. It took him three goes before the screen lit up and a rough voice spoke. "What do you want, you ugly son-of-a-bitch?"

"We've got a prisoner down."

"Don't tell me you're falling for that? It's the oldest trick in the book."

"Gerbil says she took something."

The voice on the other end of the call went quiet for a while. "We're coming up."

Randy paced in front of the cell, watching Wren. Small beads of sweat dotted his forehead, occasionally dripping down his face. Kari watched them, mesmerized, because it was easier to focus on that than to think about what was happening behind her.

Three minutes later, four more pirates entered. These wore less flamboyant clothing than the rest. Three of them trained guns on the prisoners, while the last wrenched open the cell door and pushed inside. He went straight to Wren and dropped a black bag at her side.

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