Exiled to Perdition (Sentenced to War Book 13) by J.N. Chaney & Jonathan P. Brazee

Author:J.N. Chaney & Jonathan P. Brazee [Chaney, J.N. & Brazee, Jonathan P.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Variant Publications
Published: 2023-03-18T16:00:00+00:00

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Rev stayed in the doghouse/armory for just a few hours before Tomiko retrieved him. She was still mad, and she was giving him the silent treatment, but she said he needed to recover, and sleeping on the hard steel deck of the ship wasn’t going to make that easier.

He had a suspicion that Daryll had called her. How else would she know he was lying out on the deck? Either way, he was glad to be in his rack, and when he woke up in the morning, he almost felt human.

The two of them walked around on eggshells, both on tenterhooks as they waited for another blowup, but gradually, they eased back into their normal rhythm. The work of caring for two infants, even with help from Kat, Strap, Kelly, Dr. Rima, and Dr. Teo, had a lot to do with that. The workload and drain on their time meant there wasn’t much time for anything else to crop up.

Rev tried to do more with the girls, and Tomiko started asking him for more input, which Rev noted. He hadn’t told anyone he’d been feeling a little passed over and ignored, so this shift surprised but pleased him.

Punch had told him that most texts on relationships recommended talking about issues, but Rev had avoided confronting it face-to-face, and it seemed to work out for them. Maybe it would blow up in the future, but for the moment, things were OK.

They had two more landings, both of which went by without incident. The saboteur—and Rev was sure there was one—might have hit again. One of the food fabricators went down, but not through corruption. The mixing spindle broke, which was an almost unheard-of situation. The spindles were one of the most robust parts of a fabricator.

A new part was printed within two days, and the fabricator was brought back online, so it hadn’t had much of an effect. But it initiated a command action group, made up of Rev, Bundy, Wolf, and Commander Nyad, the ship’s XO. Rev still didn’t know if he trusted Wolf. What better way to escape suspicion than being on the group tasked with ferreting out the saboteur? But it was what it was, and Rev had to deal with it.

The other major issue was that the Loup-Garou was reaching the end of its attachment to the task force. The Hégémonie ship’s assignment was for eighteen months, and that was approaching quicker than they realized. Dr. Njuguna didn’t know if the ship would be replaced. And if she weren’t, then the Carabinieri, who were on board, would have to be cross-decked to one of the other platforms.

All of these, along with the mundane minutiae of running the task force, could be mind-numbing at times, and Rev often wished he was back as a sergeant, when all he had to do was take care of his immediate Marines and fight the enemy.

So, it was with great pleasure that the next mission was looming on the horizon. The task

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