Liberator (The Liberators Saga Book 1) by Nick Bailey & Darren Bullock

Author:Nick Bailey & Darren Bullock [Bailey, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Liberator 24june2016
Publisher: Nick Bailey & Darren Bullock
Published: 2016-08-05T23:00:00+00:00

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JJ was standing in The Bar when Shan found him. To his surprise, Shan didn’t look as pissed as JJ thought he’d be. He had deliberately sent Orlanda to fetch Shan from the mainland, knowing the pair would have a somewhat fractious meeting. The idea had been to get any problems out of the way before working together on a mission. He hadn’t expected such a blow-up, but the incident with the inebriated tramp couldn’t have been predicted. JJ turned to the bar sim to order Shan a drink.

Footsteps tapping across the wooden floor of The Bar made JJ look back to see Jayn in mid-air, flying towards Shan. He only managed to catch her because of his size. She acted like a young girl, oblivious to the fact that she was a fully grown woman — catching a fully grown woman mid-flight was not for the faint-hearted. She hit him chest-first, their faces level but her feet thirty centimetres from the floor.

“Shan, you’re home!” She all but squealed in delight.

JJ hadn’t told her he was going to get Shan, and watched with a huge grin.

Shan wrapped his arms around Jayn and kissed her on the forehead and cheeks as she kicked her legs with the kind of joy only the young can muster.

“I missed you, sweetheart,” he said.

“I know you did! It must have been horrid being all the way in space without me to look after you.”

“It was, but luckily JJ came and rescued me.” He tried to set her on the floor but she bent her legs up behind herself so he couldn’t and smiled, clinging on even tighter.

“I won’t leave you again.”

“Promise?”

“I promise.”

The Bar seemed to have its own gravity. It was the first place to look for someone, the first place anyone went when they wanted to be alone, or wanted company, or wanted to hang out and see what happened next. It was the first place Rox went when she arrived back on the island. The sim on duty had cleared her arrival and she had exchanged a brief hello with Billy over the airwaves, but she hadn’t seen anyone face to face, so The Bar was her obvious destination. Operations or the war-room might have made more sense, but it was a Liberator thing. When looking for someone, something or nothing, you went to The Bar.

Rox was one of the Liberators’ most versatile starship pilots, able to fly anything from a shuttle up to comfortably handling the helm of the Arianne. In recent years she had been making a living moving small freight around with her own ship, the Taramiche — a heavily modified light transport cruiser. Most of the modifications were geared towards speed and what might be considered utilities for criminal activity, such as hidden cargo space, stealth systems and expensive scrambling arrays that could mute, blind and deafen unfriendly ships. Rox didn’t see herself as a criminal in the classic sense; she tended to take military contracts moving much-needed supplies into blockaded worlds or taking people into or out of troubled systems.

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