Quantum: Red Rock Alien Mail Order Brides 1 (Intergalactic Dating Agency) by Erin Kellison

Author:Erin Kellison [Kellison, Erin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fire Flower Publishing, LLC
Published: 2016-09-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Five

Raider felt a keen sense of satisfaction that Sophia had frozen, startled, looking back at him, caught in a moment where her thoughts were naked on her face. She had felt it, too, then. The way their thoughts had coincided last night…. If anything, today it was stronger. There was something between them; he could feel it in his blood, the way it heated and surged within him when she was close. And it wasn’t just sexual attraction; this was more. As if they shared energy.

“Under other circumstances,” Sophia had said. Yes. Absolutely. But Raider was thinking the present circumstances would have to suffice.

The front door opened again, Leif returning with Cindy and Nina.

Leif, who worked for the Light. His second name should’ve been Traitor.

“Nimbus will have sentinels looking for her,” Cindy was saying. “Especially if Sai is interested in a union.”

“It’s the metas I’m concerned about,” Leif returned. “Though Nimbus must be very careful if he thinks he can complicate Counsel Sai’s interests on Earth and get away with it.”

Raider didn’t care about Sai’s interests at all. He’d save the brother and then dive into the black…with the sister comfortably situated in his hold, right next to his fifty pounds of fudge. He might even share some.

“Alexander West doesn’t have a lot of time,” Raider said. “We need to move him tonight.”

Nina frowned and leaned toward Sophia. “I’m lost. Who’s Alex—?”

Sophia waved her silent.

“There’s another man I need for the job,” Raider added. “Might take some persuading.” He looked at Leif. “You know him. Good with systems engineering, like force fields.”

Leif’s gaze sharpened. “He’s here, too? That does make things easier. Are there others?”

“Don’t know,” Raider said. “But he might. He seemed very at home. ‘Living local,’ he put it.”

“He was always…adaptable,” Leif mused. “So our own little mission. Just like old times.”

“No,” Raider said. There was a huge difference. “This is mine.”

Cindy’s eyes were glowing again, the telltale indicator of a Rigurhan opportunist. “You’re Pact. You’re both Pact. I thought all of you had been terminated.”

Murdered, she meant. Her kind would know. The Rigurhan warlords had done quite a bit of it.

“When this is done,” she said. “I have work for you. You’re trained, you can heal, you never give in—”

Raider interrupted, speaking to Leif. “Sophia needs a change of clothes. Do you know if Nimbus is watching her hotel? He’ll send a meta this time. One of us will have to take her to get her things.”

Otherwise, they’d have to find what she needed in those shops with the scorpions trapped in plastic, and that was too exposed, too public, and probably a worthless effort. She’d have a long journey through the black after they’d rescued her brother and Raider made off with her, and he wanted her to be as comfortable as she could be.

“Let Cindy take her,” Leif said. “She can earn her commission from Sai. And you and I have things to discuss that these others should not hear.”

Raider didn’t want to discuss anything.

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