The Awakening by Kaitlyn O'Connor

Author:Kaitlyn O'Connor [O'Connor, Kaitlyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Amazon: B00H5C6ME4
Publisher: New Concepts Publishing
Published: 2012-07-02T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Reuel's plan was a sound one and yet it didn't go as smoothly as he'd no doubt hoped. This was primarily due to the fact that the speech he'd given, contrary to what he'd apparently believed at the time, didn't entirely unite their band of rogues. It inspired those who'd escaped with Reuel when Brown had ordered them shot as traitors to return to the base camp at Slaughter Ridge and kidnap the women they'd left behind.

On the whole, Danika thought it was a good thing--for the women, at least--regardless of the fact that they weren't the least bit happy about having been captured .. uh rescued.

It wasn't exactly a good thing for Reuel's plans, either, since the raiders returned with a band of furious men on their heels.

Danika thought for several minutes that Reuel would order the raiders shot on the spot, or order the cyborgs to retaliate--which she was not comfortable with even if the men were shooting at them!

Instead, he ordered an immediate evacuation of the base they'd appropriated from the Andorians.

They were a far superior force in every way--better armed, better fed, and far better 'built'. The lingering doubts Danika had harbored that Reuel truly meant to do his best to avoid a mortal confrontation with the humans were laid to rest.

It did occur to her that one of the reasons Reuel ordered an evacuation instead of retaliating with deadly prejudice might have been simply because he was ready to leave. She also knew that the men from the other base were never any real threat--except to the cyborgs that had decided to raid their base and that it might have been a completely different story except for those circumstances. She still felt much better about being a part of his command. She still thought that she was going to have to part ways with him at some point if for no other reason than the gender issue, but she felt less like she was betraying her own people.

She wasn't nearly as sympathetic to 'her' people when they had piled everything into the ships that had been repaired and took off. The ships appeared to have been completely repaired, but they hadn't actually been tested in flight. The ship her and her squad ended up on shook and groaned worse than the lander that had brought her to the surface of Xeno-12 to start with.

Ten minutes after takeoff even she knew that the ship wasn't going to attain escape velocity. For a space of maybe five minutes, she could hear the engines straining, could feel the ship

sluggishly climbing a little higher. They were never actually informed that they'd reached an altitude where it was safe to remove their safety harnesses--because they never did. The

chugging and sputtering of the engine never ceased either and after an uncomfortably short climb, the ship almost seemed to level out for a handful of minutes and then began to descend again.

Danika sent Dane and Niles, who were seated across from her, a frightened, questioning look when she felt the ship change directions.

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