Tempest Rising (Infinity's End Book 2) by Eric Warren

Author:Eric Warren [Warren, Eric]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eric Warren Author, LLC
Published: 2019-05-26T16:00:00+00:00

20

He didn’t. He couldn’t have. It wasn’t possible.

“Commander,” Greene’s voice snapped Evie out of her thoughts and she turned to him, his face burning. “Tell me you didn’t know about this.”

“He never would have left my sight if I had,” she replied, just as angry. But she couldn’t show her anger, not like the captain could. He had to be up to something. Caspian wouldn’t betray them, not after everything he’d been through. She glanced over at Page who was doing a very bad job of keeping the smile off his face. He would never let this go now. Not after all of them watching that shuttle disappear into the undercurrent despite her and the captain’s repeated attempts to contact him. She didn’t have a choice, there was only one way to settle this.

“I tried to warn you,” Page said. “The other day when I had to pull him off Izak. I tried to tell everyone. Once a deserter always a deserter. He was a security risk from the moment he stepped on this ship. He’s probably on his way back to them now with a shuttle full of tactical information to sell to them. We might have all just been pawns in his game to defect to the Sil. You should have let me blow him out of the sky.”

Greene only shook his head.

“You’re not that stupid, Jorro, so don’t pretend like you are,” Evie said. “The fact was Cas was ordered on this mission by Admiral Sanghvi. He was coming whether anyone else wanted him to or not.”

Page’s eyes flashed but he returned to his duties.

“I don’t believe he would defect,” Zaal said from ops. “He was too insulted by—” Evie cut him off with a hard stare. “He is no longer a deserter.”

Evie locked down her station and made her way to the hypervator doors. “I’ll get a shuttle prepped. And I want to bring some of the infantry soldiers with me. In case.”

“Stay where you are, Commander,” Greene ordered.

She screwed up her face, planting her feet. “You can’t suggest we just let him go? I need to go after him. Tempest’s engines won’t be back online for another two hours and he could be anywhere by then. If his trail degrades for more than a few minutes…”

“I’m aware,” Greene said. “May I see you in the command room for a moment?” His voice sounded calm and measured. Too calm considering what had just happened.

They made their way to the command room, Evie taking another look at Page and giving him the meanest scowl she could muster. Not only was it bad enough he’d been questioning her judgement ever since she’d been sent to retrieve Cas back in Sargan territory, but he’d made his concerns public to some of the other officers behind her back. And the last thing they needed was to lose confidence in their commanding officers. Had it not been against protocol she would have decked him already.

The doors closed behind them and she was so focused on her anger at Page she didn’t realize the captain still hadn’t said anything.

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