Privateer's Commission by Randi Darren

Author:Randi Darren [Darren, Randi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2024-08-09T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 18

“I… see,” Eun murmured, staring at the still sleeping drunk woman. She was laid out on a medical bed.

Handcuffed to it, in fact.

There was dried vomit on her bikini top, though Marionette had scrubbed the rest of it out of her hair and off her face.

Looking at her, Ralph couldn’t deny she was actually rather pretty.

“The corridor station owner will get a letter from the Calesat,” Eun murmured, then looked to Ralph and smiled at him. “We will likely need to operate in the corridor, so it would be good for them to understand that their behavior is unacceptable, considering we already made arrangements with them.”

“Ha. Are you going to rush in and defend my honor?” Ralph asked, grinning at Eun. “Whatever shall I do for the Warrior Eun to repay her favor?”

Eun grinned back at him, raised her eyebrows, then looked away from him to the sleeping drunk. With a soft huff, she then turned away and faced him once more.

“We must put to engine and leave. The war has begun, and we have immediately encircled several of their high value planets,” Eun stated. “We need you to move to the shipping lanes that they’re likely to use. I have charts for you.”

“Certainly, certainly. Sounds fine. I’ll review them and decide what to do from there,” Ralph murmured and gestured to the door. “I assume that’s all?”

“Yes. We’re not foolish enough to try and tell you what to do, other than to point out a shipping lane we’d like hit.”

“See? Smart and beautiful. You can be my pilot. I bet you’ll look great in the harness,” Ralph threw as an offhand comment.

He was somewhat distracted as Marionette had been toying with him before Eun arrived in her transport. His libido was turned up higher than he wanted it to be since she hadn’t been able to carry out with her sweet promises.

Eun laughed at that after catching up to him.

“You’ve a ship full of women, one who is likely the most attractive Confed woman I’ve ever met in person. You’ve also a new ship’s-mistress and a third woman in a bikini,” Eun chided him. “You need not court me so.”

“Court you? I just want to see you strapped up in a seat. You can admire beauty without ever trying to lay hands on it,” Ralph countered and sat down in the co-pilot seat.

At the same time, he gestured to the pilot’s seat.

Eun was a pilot who had earned her Warrior’s status through such work. Believing he could do more than her was silly.

“Wait, you really want me as the pilot?” Eun asked somewhat in shock.

“You’re a Warrior. Warrior Eun. A pilot. Your life lies with the rest of us,” replied Ralph with a laugh. “So strap yourself in, smile so I can take a picture of it, and get to work, Pilot.”

Eun blinked, stared at him for several seconds, then quietly buckled herself in, tightened up the harness, and put her hands to the controls.

“Xas go ahead and flip the controls over to ‘miss hot in straps’ over there.

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