Escape: Exodus Book Three by Gun Brooke

Author:Gun Brooke [Brooke, Gun]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781626396364
Published: 2016-12-20T21:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twelve

Thea paced back and forth in her private quarters. She had attempted to make herself some tea, but that had ended with the mug hitting the wall with a resounding thud. Unfortunately, she hadn’t gained a shred of release from the stress that riled her entire system.

“Fuck you, Hadler,” she muttered as she pivoted by the large view screens. She stopped and drew a deep breath. “Computer. Set all view screens to forward-facing outside hull cameras.” Within a second space hurtled by, and she hoped this view would help ground her. It often did, but not always. Not when it really mattered. She kept pacing, trying to get a rhythm going, a cadence of her heels against the deck. The diversion worked as long as she was outside of the carpeted area, but as soon as her steps were inaudible, the thoughts of her ex-husband’s latest stunt inundated her mind.

She glanced at her desk in the far right corner of the living area. Her computer tablet sat where she’d tossed it. The way she had flung it on the desk in utter disgust, it was a miracle that it still worked. Thea had browsed Hadler’s, or his ghostwriter’s, text, and knew instantly what he was after. Revenge, by stripping her soul bare of any privacy. He knew her well enough to realize this was what she valued most. She was in the public eye from when she got up in the morning until she went back to bed at night. Writing about personal details, twisting facts just enough to stay reasonably within the limits of truth, he might as well have pulled the skin off her back. She actually felt raw to the touch. Her only countermeasure would be painful, but she had little choice if she wanted to stop the launch of his memoirs.

The door chime rang, making her flinch. She walked over to the surveillance console. “Identify yourself.” She was not in the mood to be polite.

“Thea? It’s Korrian. I have Briar, Adina, Meija…and Caya here as well. Please let us in. Or at least some of us…”

No. She didn’t want to see anyone. Most of all, she didn’t want to explain to anyone what was going on, what in the book hurt the most, or how she had ever come to marry such an awful man. She really didn’t. Still, her hand moved of its own volition and pressed the sensor for the door.

Thea motioned for them to enter with a grandiose gesture of her right arm. “Why not? You seem hell-bent on sharing my misery.”

“Where’s your team?” Korrian gazed around Thea’s quarters as she stepped inside. “I would imagine you’d need them to perform damage control.”

“Oh, trust me. They are.” Thea watched Caya enter. Her guards stayed back in the corridor, nodding respectfully toward Thea before she closed the door. “They’re just not doing it here. I sent them back to the office. I would have ripped someone’s head off if they’d stayed.”

“Oh, my.” Meija picked up the dented tea mug.

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