Caspian's Fortune (Infinity's End Book 1) by Eric Warren

Author:Eric Warren [Warren, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eric Warren Author, LLC
Published: 2019-05-11T16:00:00+00:00

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When they returned to Evie and Laura the women had been in the middle of “interviewing” more people in the common areas. They returned to Cas and Box when they saw they were back.

“Have any luck?” Evie asked.

Cas shook his head. “You?”

“Nothing yet. But there has to be something there. There are species here from at least thirty worlds, most of them in relative proximity to this system. A Coalition ship doesn’t just disappear.”

“No, it doesn’t,” Cas replied, wishing they’d found both debris and nothing at all. Because at least if they’d found debris the search would be over. But if the search was over then so was his freedom. He was done playing nice. “Look, we’re heading down to the lower levels. I want to talk to some of the people down there. They might be willing to give up some more information…for a price.” He glanced over to Evie. “Transfer me a few thousand?”

“To your personal account? No way,” Evie said. “You start bribing people and they’ll tell you whatever you want.”

“And if you don’t they’ll never tell you anything,” Cas said, his hand outstretched.

Evie huffed and pulled out a small unit from one of her jacket pockets. “Fine, but I’m going with you this time. Laura, you and Box continue finding out what you need up here.” She tapped the device and Cas felt his personal comm buzz with the transfer.

“No,” Cas replied. “I want Box with me. Things can get rough down there. I need…protection.”

Evie gave him such a pitiful look he wished he hadn’t tried to cover the lie at all. “Don’t worry,” she said, patting the sword. “I think you’ll be fine.”

He could still make this work. Box just had to make sure he was on the Reasonable Excuse by the time Cas was done with his meeting. And he’d have to find a way to incapacitate Evie. There was just no other way around it now.

“Box, get back to the ship. I want to make sure no one’s poking around.”

“The sensors would have alerted us,” Box protested.

“Still,” Cas pressed. “You never know in a place like this. Someone might have a cloaked refractor or a subsonic emitter. I want to make sure we can take off when we need to.” He forced his gaze on Box, doing his best to impress how important this was. After all their close calls, he had full confidence Box could be ready. But his allegiances might be conflicted at the moment. He’d never disobeyed Cas before, but there was a first time for everything.

“Yeah. Sure,” Box said, glancing at Laura. Worst case scenario they could fire her out of one of the ships two escape pods and pick up a replacement sometime later. They could even point her back in the direction of the station. That might be ideal, Evie would probably feel better about him if Laura stayed with Box.

“Time’s wasting,” Evie said, already heading back toward the tunnels.

“See you back on the ship,” Cas said to Box as he followed her.

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