Ghost of Jupiter (Jade Saito - Action Sci-Fi Series Book 1) by Tom Jordan

Author:Tom Jordan [Jordan, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3
Publisher: Audacity Digital Press
Published: 2017-01-16T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

Tommy held out his hand, wiggling his fingers. Jade frowned, then realized he wanted her to hand over her communicator. She took it out of her ear and tossed it to him, and he caught it and fitted it within his own ear. Tossing it was preferable to handing it over. She didn’t want to make contact, or look him in the eye, after the things he’d said.

“Say again,” Tommy said to Henning over the comms. “You found it? What’s the condition?”

“I can see a corner of it. What’s there looks intact.”

“Okay. Can your cargo arm extract it?”

“Yeah. Prying it loose now. Probably have this thing in the hold and return to you within the hour.”

“Copy,” was all Tommy said before tossing the earpiece back to Jade. “I’m gonna finish the repairs. Which thruster had the trouble?” He stared at the holos instead of looking her in the eye.

Not wanting to speak to him, Jade pointed to the port side of the ship. Tommy brushed by her, moving down the corridor.

After a minute, Jade also left the cockpit, turning immediately to the right and entering her small cabin. She hit the button to close the door, which whooshed shut and sealed with the sound of metal on metal.

The maelstrom of emotions caught up with her, and something inside her gave way. She felt conflicted about the fate of the pilots she had killed, and miserable about Tommy turning against her over her growing relationship with Marco, whom she suddenly longed to hold. Her life was swirling out of control. And now she couldn’t even count on Tommy, her closest friend.

She was on a remote, hellish planet, with potential enemies hiding somewhere. She was worried about them coming back to get revenge, and despite being part of a team she felt alone, and vulnerable. She couldn’t even count on Ghost, for the first time since she’d bought him. The only thing between her and death was a thin life-support field.

What was with Tommy? What would happen if this situation were opposite? Would she say anything if Tommy was with someone she felt would hurt him? She supposed she could see herself doing that.

Tommy had always looked out for her and showed he cared about her well-being. Not just said it, but lived it. Could she hold that against him?

Jade reasoned that, back in the cockpit, she’d felt like Tommy was trying to take away the newest and best thing happening to her, one of the few good things in her life, and that he had no right to do that. She’d lashed out without thinking, without hearing what he was saying. Tommy’d always been a caring friend, even if she felt he was overstepping and saying things she didn’t want to hear.

She tried to get her emotions under control, breathing slowly and calmly, just like she did to get a grip on herself in the cockpit. She’d had enough of her feelings compromising her composure.

Jade looked at her face in the small mirror she had mounted on the wall behind her fold-down bunk.

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