Hostage: A Dark Sci Fi Romance by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2022-09-22T16:00:00+00:00

7

Dreamy

Over the next few days, I settle in a little better — and I do mean a very little better. I haven’t seen Zeki since the incident, but I can feel the menace emanating from other women. The competition for Shah is fierce, and I am sure that my life is in danger. Shah doesn’t seem to think so. He believes his reputation is enough to keep me safe. It might be enough to keep me safe from men, but women of the kind who want him don’t care if they have to cross him to get him. I have the very unsettling feeling that my life has never been in more danger than it is right now on Shah’s ship.

His vessel is more like a small village than anything. A space-faring den of iniquity, with skimmers coming and going all the time. I see their silver outlines shooting toward the ship several times a day, and just as many departing. I wonder how they keep order, when there are so few people who seem to live here perpetually, and there are very few guards. Is it respect? Fear? Something else?

“Dreamy.” Shah nudges me out of my deep thoughts. “We are on our way to dock at an outlaw station in the next hour. I’ll be doing some business. It’s a good chance for you to get off the ship, go shopping, hang out. Enjoy. Don’t get into trouble.”

“What does that mean? You know there are people who want to get me into trouble. I can’t help getting into trouble if they bring the trouble to me.”

“Don’t let them, Dreamy.”

I suppose there are some battles I’m going to have to fight on my own. I don’t feel ready or equipped. In the Colony there were rules everybody abided by. I knew how to function there. Here I’m lost. Not just physically on the ship, but socially. I’ve never had friends in the way outlaws make friends with one another, but I did have colleagues. You know where you are with a colleague. I have no idea what to do with any of the people on this ship, none of whom can be trusted.

My plan is just to stay in his rooms while we are docked. I can’t get in trouble if I stay away from everybody.

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