Friends in High Places by Andi Marquette

Author:Andi Marquette [Marquette, Andi]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Fiction, General, Gay, (v4.0), Science Fiction, Adventure, Lesbian, Lesbians, Smugglers
ISBN: 9781934452080
Google: g8dgPQAACAAJ
Amazon: 1934452084
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company
Published: 2008-01-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 9

Torri woke with a jerk, Kai’s hand over her mouth. An insistent beeping sounded in the outer room. The door signal.

Kai removed her fingers from Torri’s lips, urgency written across her features. She left the bed, motioning for Torri to follow her to the bathroom in the far corner of the sleeping room through a dark blue curtain. Kai turned on the water in the shower tube and entered, Torri behind her. A minute passed.

Kai’s commlink must have signaled because she mouthed a curse and left the shower, dripping. Torri turned the water off, waiting.

“Tinsdale.” Kai stood outside the door, water running down her back and legs to pool beneath her feet. A ruse, Torri thought. Whoever was at the door would see that Kai had been in the shower and not think anything past that. Kai listened to whomever was talking for a while, placing a hand on her hip, tense. “I’m not on duty for two hours.” She stalked out of the bathroom, trailing water, then reappeared and pointed at the tube. Torri nodded and remained where she was as Kai disappeared through the curtain again.

She listened, and after a few moments, she heard voices.

She picked out Kai’s, clipped and professional. A tinge of irritation in her tone. Then a male voice, almost apologetic.

Another male voice, and then a female. Then Kai again. Torri strained and thought she caught “Vintooth” and “security” but she wasn’t sure. Then silence.

Kai entered the bathroom a few moments later, wrapped in a thin robe. “There’s been a security situation at Vintooth.”

Torri waited, the set of Kai’s jaw and mouth broadcasting her agitation.

“They’ve closed the main entrance to all but mining personnel and Coalition. And all ships registered to merchants and traders are under lockdown. Interrogations begin at fifteen hundred.”

“What happened?”

“A tip,” Kai said, tone cold. “Someone planning a theft.”

Cyr. Or worse, Jindor. “Why traders and merchants? Why not everyone?”

“I don’t know. I have to report now.” She let the bathrobe fall and stepped back into the tube with Torri. She turned on the jet dry and warm air pulsed over Torri’s skin and hair.

She knew not to press Kai. The fragile truce they’d just begun constructing might not withstand demands for more information. She turned her back to Kai so the air could dry her front. To her amazement, Kai slid her arms around her waist from behind and held her tight, rocking slowly back and forth for a few moments before releasing her. She stepped out of the tube, catching Torri’s gaze with her own, something wistful in her expression before she passed through the curtain into the sleeping room.

Torri turned the air off before leaving the bathroom. She found her trousers, underwear, blouse, and underlining on the bed, laid out for her. Kai’s gesture settled with a strange warmth in her chest, a sign that Kai was maybe more comfortable with the intimacy they’d expressed, and she wanted to make it a pattern. Maybe.

Torri dressed, then watched Kai fasten the clasps on her grey uniform shirt, standing in front of a shallow closet.

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