Finders Keepers by Linnea Sinclair

Author:Linnea Sinclair
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Interplanetary Voyages, General, Romance, Science Fiction, Adventure, Life on Other Planets, Fiction, Women Astronauts, Love Stories
ISBN: 9780553587982
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2001-01-01T17:00:00+00:00

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They were moving away from the station in five minutes. In ten, Kospahr was by his side, gloating.

“See, T’vahr? You thought you knew it all. But she fooled you, fooled your whole team. If it wasn’t for my close association with Lieutenant Gurdan, she would’ve gotten away.”

“Gurdan? I’ll remember that.”

“Be sure I won’t let you forget it. You owe all this to me.” He waved his hand towards the enhanced images of the squadron, and a small, elliptical freighter, on the viewscreen. “All this.”

“I won’t forget, Kospahr. Don’t worry about that.”

He pushed himself out of the command chair as if intent on something on a console to his left. He stared over a bridge officer’s shoulder, seeing nothing, then turned. The stairs to the lower bridge were before him. He forced himself to descend leisurely, as if waiting to pounce on an unsuspecting crewmember, errant at his duty. But he sought Jankova’s station.

“Anything?” he asked her softly, pretending to stare in the opposite direction. He knew she was tied into the flow of chatter between the squadron fighters. And was, at the same time, now actively scanning the battered remains of the Venture for anything the best of Imperial technology could discern.

“She took two direct laser strikes to the stern. Starboard cargo holds and engine room took the most damage.

Enviro must be running off an aux somewhere. I’m picking up a faint energy output amidships.”

“She has a small generator there.”

“Then that must be it.”

“The bridge?”

“I’m showing a humanoid heat signature. More than that, I can’t tell from here.”

There was a body. But there was no way to know if the body was alive. He chanced at look at her. “Thank you, again, Hana.”

“I think it’s pretty good possibility she’s still alive, sir.”

“I think it would be damned, damned good if she were still alive.”

He stepped away, before his voice cracked and betrayed him.

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