Spy to Die For (Assassins Guild) by DeLake Kris

Author:DeLake, Kris [DeLake, Kris]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2013-07-02T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

Apparently, everyone on Zaeen had seen the ship explode. It had happened so close that Zaeen had to suspend ship traffic and turn on its own shields. A few of the automatic lasers had destroyed the largest bits of debris just to keep them from damaging the station itself.

If station was the right word. Jack had never seen any place like this megalopolis. He’d been on big space resorts in the past, but they had a lot of private areas and one central purpose, usually some kind of relaxation for the rich and powerful, with a small section reserved for other travelers who had to stop but couldn’t afford the main part of the resort.

Zaeen was like five gigantic cities mixed with three resorts and seven shopping centers, none of it geared exclusively toward the filthy rich. Most of it seemed made for the middle-of-the-road traveler who needed time away from his horrible life or for the residents of Zaeen themselves, the people who actually worked on this place, and needed to house, feed, and clothe their families.

The landing area wasn’t a bay or a dock. It was a full-fledged port. And it took Skye a bit of negotiation to get someone to allow them entry. She had to prove that they wouldn’t be indigent.

Apparently, Zaeen would have turned them away, even if they arrived on the lifepod after that large explosion, if they couldn’t pay for their own way on the station.

Jack thought he’d seen it all, but even so that seemed remarkably cold to him. He felt outrage but didn’t express it. He didn’t want Zaeen to turn them away.

After they got clearance to enter, they got off the pod with the shirts on their back, and were forced into some truly rigid (and stinky) decontamination chambers, after which they had to buy new clothing, because their clothing was deemed contaminated, even though it wasn’t. The way Jack knew that it was all rigged was that Skye had to pay for the clothing before they got off the lifepod. She was promised a refund if their clothing wasn’t contaminated.

Jack wanted to call it all a scam, but he didn’t dare. He needed to be grateful. He was alive, he hadn’t been blown up by the ship they stole or murdered by his former colleagues.

And as he had said to Skye not an hour before, he had spent more than twenty-four hours in the company of one of the most beautiful women he had ever seen.

Hell, if he were honest with himself, she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. And he wanted to see her again.

After he got out of decontamination—well, after he got through the large retail center attached to the decontamination unit—he went to the “Reuniting Antechamber” as the section was called, hoping Skye had waited for him.

Part of him worried that she hadn’t, that she got some kind of payment for bringing hapless people like him to this place. Granted, he might

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