Sharon Maria Bidwell - Cosmic by HTML

Author:HTML [HTML]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-03-07T23:44:42.751000+00:00

Chapter Seventeen

“Come at me.”

Meliora followed the instruction, rushed in to disarm her opponent, and once again landed flat on her back. “How do you do that?”

“I’ll show you. Here, you take the knife.” Sela handed her the weapon, removing its protective sheath before she did so.

“I’ll hurt you.”

“No, you won’t. Besides, I’ll have more incentive to stop you, knowing that I can get hurt.”

Meliora still looked doubtful. She made a halfhearted attempt to plunge ahead. This time she was not only disarmed, but also forced down on her knees. Sela let her up.

“Now, do it again, slowly, and watch what I do.”

Once again, they performed the move, Sela showing and explaining each step. As they continued to work, they acquired a growing audience. Both women chose to ignore the rest of the crew. Only when Marshall joined the others did their attention waver. Sela looked at Meliora and asked, “Had enough?” To her relief, the other woman nodded. Sela didn’t like the way Marshall watched her, and from the expression and the shiver that ran through the other woman, she fancied they both felt their skin crawl. Sela just hid it better.

“Taking lessons from her now, I see,” Marshall remarked when they were through.

Meliora stared at him, her gaze steady, unwavering. “She’s a good fighter, far better than me. I don’t intend to die at the hands of the Coalition if I can help it. I’d be a fool not to take this opportunity.”

“Let’s hope we’re not all proved to be fools,” Marshall said as Meliora moved away. The woman glanced back at him only once. At his back, Marshall couldn’t see the look she aimed at Sela. That look warned caution.

They were on their way to the installation where they believed the weapon, Zeus, was in production. The crew had voted to follow Sela for the moment, though Marshall and Asta remained sceptical. Marshall might not like it, but outvoted, he could hardly argue without proving what they all suspected: that his so-called democracy was nothing but a sham. Sure enough, after the vote, he waited a few days before expressing his doubts. Meliora had been the one to tell Marshall what to do with his so-called misgivings, though she had disguised it in the manner of a very old phrase. She simply told him they had already laid the sheets on the bed. Soon, they were going to have to lie on it.

As far as Sela was concerned, with Marshall in charge, she didn’t like with whom she needed to get into bed.

Speaking of bed…if she was risking her life, there had better be some celebratory sex when they returned, and if there was one thing she planned to do, it was make sure that her two favourite men made it back safely.

* * * * *

Sela hedged along the side of the building, towards the doorway ahead. She slipped inside, scanned the area both with her eyes and with electronic means, and then waved the others in. Snake joined her first, proving he was surprisingly nimble when it came to escaping detection.

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