Claimed by the Alien Chieftain (A SciFi Alien Warrior Romance) (Mates of the Kaluma Book 3) by Ella Maven

Author:Ella Maven [Maven, Ella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-10-14T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

Zuri

The door to Zhronx shut, and I lowered my binoculars. My breathing was loud in the stillness of the japalk meadow, accompanied only by the breeze swaying the tall reed grass stalks around me. The bleached-out grass was taller than me, so I could remain mostly hidden.

I tracked Sherif’s movements on my screen as he moved toward the control room. Once I had access, I could breathe a little easier. Sherif hadn’t said a word since he’d gotten inside, but if I listened close enough, I could hear subtle closing of doors. Distant voices. He was very much inside the enemy’s house.

The cudgels hadn’t returned yet, which made me happy. They guarded Zhronx like living gargoyles and were a cross between a vulture and a dragon with bald, wrinkly heads, sharp beaks, and oily feathers on their bodies. I shuddered thinking about the few times I’d seen one up close.

The Rogastix search team returned and entered the fortress again. The doors closed, and the day once again returned to a stillness that settled under my skin like splinters.

A thump and soft cry came through earpiece, and I held my breath until I heard Sherif exhale. “Can you grunt if you’re okay?” I asked in a whisper.

“Fine,” he grunted.

I pressed my lips together and followed his dot on my screen with my finger. He was close to the control room—another hallway or two and he’d be at the door. Soon enough, I heard the latch of a door and the click as it closed.

Sherif ’s voice came over the line. “I’m inside.”

I flexed my fingers and rolled my shoulders before bringing up the keyboard on the tablet. “Head to the main screen and accept my access. You’ll see it right on the screen.”

I didn’t have time to disguise my hack into their system. They’d find out an outsider had been in their database when they ran their reports, but we’d both be long gone by then, and they would have no idea it was me. This tablet would be crushed here in the grass when I was finished with it.

“Done,” Sherif said.

My screen populated with the Zhronx files, and I got that giddy feeling in my stomach that I always did when I managed to sneak into someone’s security. “I’ll disable their security and look through the files.”

“I’ll search the cells for my brother,” he said.

While keeping an eye on Sherif’s tracker, I set to work. Once the security was disabled so he could access the prisoner area and open any cells, I combed through the log in records.

Kazel had in fact been processed about two weeks ago. There were progress reports of his time in the cells for ten days and then… nothing. No reports on his escape. No comments on where he’d gone. Just… one day he was there being fed his one bowl of gruel a day and then he was gone.

My heart pounded, and I wiped my sweaty palms on my pants. “His last location was cell ninety-eight,” I said quietly.

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