Lockdown by David Ryker & Douglas Scott

Author:David Ryker & Douglas Scott [Ryker, David & Scott, Douglas]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Ryker's Rogues
Published: 2018-10-08T04:00:00+00:00

Dev Schuster staggered through the door to find Gloom snoozing on his sofa, her ever-present hack box on her belly as it rose and fell in time with her deep breathing.

The door slid closed behind him as soon as he stepped in, leaving his security detail, a pair of soldiers in black, in the hallway. He still didn’t like having them around, but he understood why they had to be there. At least they didn’t insist on following him inside.

Gloom flinched awake to the shooshing sound. She blurted something unintelligible as she bolted upright.

“What the heck was that?” he asked, throwing his hands up in surrender.

“Huh?” Her big, dark eyes seemed to finally focus on him. “What was what?”

“You just said something that sounded like a different language.”

She blinked. “Must have been sleep talk. What time is it?”

“After midnight. What are you doing here?”

She yawned and stretched her lithe arms. Schuster struggled not to stare at the rest of her as she did so.

“I wanted to talk to you when you got in,” she said. “How are things in the lab?”

He dropped onto the sofa beside her, exhausted.

“Better than I could have expected, actually. We’re close to finishing the four Rafts. I know Drake wants more, but I think we have what we need to mount the assault. Time is more important than ordnance right now by a wide margin.”

“So you’re saying things are moving faster now that you—”

“Yes,” he said, rolling his eyes. “I’m saying that you were right, and having Sloane riding shotgun isn’t the nightmare I thought it was going to be. Are you happy?”

She grinned wide. “Yes.”

“Good for you. I, on the other hand, am exhausted and I want to got to bed. So whatever you wanted to talk to me about, get to it before I pass out.”

“Are you always this much fun when there’s a woman in your room late at night?”

Schuster felt a surge of blood rush into his cheeks. He never knew how to take Gloom, and that, combined with his current mental state, left him flummoxed. She must have seen it, because she took it easy on him.

“All right, all right,” she said. “I just wanted you to know that there’s been some talk among the others about the mission.”

He blinked sleepily. “So? That’s been going on for over a week now.”

“I don’t mean the mission itself, I mean who’s going to be on the mission.”

“What about it?”

“I’m getting the sense that the others don’t want to go. They’re fine with planning the assault, but they’re having second thoughts about actually taking part in it.”

Schuster frowned as he thought about that. He’d been so busy the past ten days that he never really put any thought toward what was going to happen when the ships were ready to go.

Now that he did, he was starting to wonder himself.

“Maybe we shouldn’t go,” he said. “We’ve done more than our part.”

“And then some,” she said, nodding. “Ben and I were talking earlier. We’ve both lived our lives in the shadows, on the fringe of society.

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