OrbForce: A Sci-Fi Lesbian Romance by Nicole Rae

Author:Nicole Rae [Rae, Nicole]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-11-19T23:00:00+00:00

Chapter Three

When I woke up in the morning Ruth was gone. I felt the sting of hurt shoot through me as I reached for her and felt the emptiness next to me. I wondered if she was now watching me via surveillance. I was sitting up looking around my suite just to be sure she wasn’t still there and then plopped myself back against my pillow and closed my eyes. What if she saw the desperation in my eyes as I scanned the room? I felt vulnerable, tired, and anxious.

I had to get up and use the restroom and collect myself in there, since that was the only room in my suite not monitored by surveillance. I found a note attached to the sink that simply read:

Z, Didn’t want to wake you. Thank you for everything. –Ruth

We had a meeting scheduled before lunch with her intelligence team to review my plan and one final meeting tonight before I departed at 2:00 a.m. for transport to Ulum. I brewed a cup of coffee and checked my comtal and saw that I had received a message from Abby. She invited me to be her date to a gala in two days. I was available, I thought. She also sent me a masked non-static IP address, which gave me links to three contraband songs. I smiled when I saw the songs she had selected. It was clear she remembered everything I said the first night we met even though we were both intoxicated. I couldn’t resist clicking on the links and listening. She also wrote that prior to meeting me she never watched the news because it was too depressing, but started following it just to see me and hear about me and she wished me luck on my summit with Ulum leadership. Her note was flirtatious and sincere. She had a kindness to her that warmed my heart. I wasn’t as drawn to her as I was to the Commander, but I felt like we could be great friends in the future and possibly more.

I was halfway through the second song when a notification came through on my comtal from the Commander requesting my presence in her office. I responded that I would be there shortly.

“Contraband songs on OrbForce? Really?” she asked as I walked through her office doors.

“I knew you would find out,” I admitted. I downloaded them knowing she would find out because I was being so closely monitored and I wanted to make her jealous to see if there was more to us than last night.

“No more Abby and no more music until the mission is complete,” she said.

“For the record, she initiated conversation with me,” I said.

“I’m aware, but you responded. No more until the mission is over.”

“And then what?” I asked.

“And then you are free to do whatever you want. Your time with OrbForce will be over. I have nowhere else to put you,” she was cold.

“I appreciate you trying,” I returned with a gracious response.

“I am sorry if I led you on last night,” she said.

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