Interstellar Service and Discipline 02 Fortune's Star by Morgan Hawke

Author:Morgan Hawke
Format: epub

Chapter Ten

Two levels up, Luxi followed the guards out of the lift and onto a walkway that crossed one of the shuttle-ways tunneling throughout the station. Plain steel walls painted with a broad green band arched over her head. Several small four-passenger shuttles zipped up and down the roadway below.

She shoved her hands into her hip pockets and followed one guard along the walkway with the other right behind her. Great, this is just great. Once again, Vincent had to step in and ruin everything. She crossed her arms and gripped her elbows as she walked. She still couldn’t believe that Amun and Leto were so willing to defend her. They hadn’t even asked; they just ... did it. She shook her head. She’d never seen anything like it. In business, you cut your losses, you didn’t defend them. Not unless they were valuable.

She sighed. I’m just a receptionist, not a whole lot of value here.

Luxi was led around a corner and through a doorway into a small and somewhat empty steel-walled parking garage. A blocky armored security shuttle painted in Sojourn Corp.’s distinctive black and gold was parked at the bottom of the small staircase.

One of the guards opened the back passenger-side door and assisted Luxi into the back seat. The door was closed and clicked as it locked.

Luxi didn’t quite conceal her flinch.

The guards climbed into the front seats without saying a single word. The hover engines whined as they powered up. In a matter of moments, the shuttle lifted on a low cushion of anti-grav and backed out of the parking space, then pulled out into the tunnels, diving into the light traffic.

Vincent ... What in glory was she going to do about him? Luxi stared out the shuttle’s window at the endless steel walls and tried to think. Vincent had filed for indenture, but how? She had thought that only someone legally wronged could sue for indenture. It was how businesses recovered their losses from crimes committed by employees. High debt could also result in indenture, but again, it was a monetary loss issue. She knew for a fact that all her debts had been cleared; Gentle-fem Symposia had made very sure of that.

Luxi shook her head. The only other way to be indentured was to volunteer your services. There was no way she’d ever agree to that, or turn over her data card. She lifted a hand to her breast pocket. The seal was open.

Ice water slid down Luxi’s spine. She shoved her fingers into her pocket. The card was gone. That card had everything: her money, her flight plan, her identity ... Panicked, she checked every pocket in her suit. Gone.

Had she left it at the counter when she’d bought her kaffa? No, she remembered picking it up. The garden; it had to be in the formal garden. Her pocket must have opened when Leto pulled her suit off to ... fuck.

She eyed the passing hallways, her hands locked together in her lap to hold back the trembling.

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