Domestic Duet: Domestic Alliance & Asset by Cora Blu

Author:Cora Blu [Blu, Cora]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romantic Sci-fi
Publisher: Cora Blu Books LLC
Published: 2015-03-15T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

All this time, right under his nose, Sadie worked undercover in the Edwards’ home. The woman had said nothing and he’d missed it; too busy ogling those hips swaying through the house.

He groaned, depressing the code for the bay doors keypad positioned on the wall. They emitted a whisper, opening onto a large steel-gray bay. Twelve-foot slots were sectioned off on the floor by glowing lines with three feet between each shuttle. Inside his crew milled about, working in teams of three, checking in new shipments from all over Earth. Multiple containers of used fuels to filter then recycle into clean non-lethal fuel to power marine vehicles underwater, lined one end of the bay in six-foot cylinders.

He tugged the material of his uniform pant leg over his thighs. Squatting before a recycled tank, now relabeled for melting and recycling to be returned to Earth for train boxcars, he logged the tracking numbers. His mind drifted.

Stop thinking about her, you’ll only drive yourself crazy. Oliver chastised himself for not seeing through her disguise. Chalk it up to female distraction. Like a horny teenager, he’d fallen under her simple beauty and that sweet tea country accent, too humble to be believable. Damn, he needed a woman badly.

Oliver made his rounds, checking the fuel roster for the returning shuttles. If anyone went outside of their zone, it would show when they refueled. And the last thing he needed was for one of his men to have gone rogue.

“Commander.” His foreman walked up handing him the electronic shipping log, “Let me get your sign off, so I can free up a crew to help with this order.”

Oliver studied the states consistently sending clean fuel. The government gave dividends to states that abided by the rules. Once a year they received a kickback for their public school systems.

“How’s Branch and McClain after the fight the other day?” he inquired of the men that fought alongside him when the rogues entered his bay.

“Good. The karuntian captain replaced all the broken equipment and the two-day salaries he reimbursed shows character. I wasn’t expecting him to anti-up without a fight.”

“The one good thing about the treaty is infractions must be dealt with immediately,” he said, jotting his signature with the electric pen.

“Commander…you have a visitor. Is she the one shacking up with the karuntian captain?”

He looked up. Why didn’t he know this and everyone else did? Because he didn’t socialize. “See to your men, Foreman, and check the tanks. If you don’t have enough work…”

The man backed away, shaking his head. “More than enough,” he said, and then spit out orders as he crossed the room.

Oliver pivoted on his boots upon hearing Sadie’s footsteps approaching, signaling their next fight to begin in three, two, one…

“Commander Holston said I’d find you down here in your favorite place,” Detective Ochi said, her voice raised over the hum of his staff testing the equipment as she stepped through the entryway, blending into the flow. The metal door slid from one side to the other with a whisper.

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