The Captain's Secret Daughter_In the Stars Romance by Eve Langlais

Author:Eve Langlais [Langlais, Eve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Eve Langlais
Published: 2018-09-17T17:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

Despite it providing shelter, they left the broken ship far behind at Kobrah’s insistence. He worried about power core radiation turning them into organic puddles.

A valid worry, and even if the worst that happened was mutant powers, there was no point in sticking by the ship. There was no way of repairing the damage done to it. It was a miracle they’d even survived.

The only one who seemed happy about their mishap was Karo. With Moppet tucked under her arm, she skipped by Kobrah’s side, not minding at all his order to keep close. The alien planet seemed benign on the surface, but experience had shown it only took one bite from the wrong local insect or the brush of some fauna to find out just how deadly the unknown could be.

While Dara eyed the foliage around them with suspicion, Kobrah didn’t seem too perturbed. According to him, “We can breathe the air, which means there’s going to be something we can eat. No signs of civilization, so the worst we have to deal with is local predators, of which there are no indications of really large ones. On land at least. Which means our weapons should be able to handle them.”

“I’m more worried about the little predators,” she muttered, keeping an eye on the ground. The small bites were sometimes the deadliest.

“Keep your boots on. Soon as we make camp, we’ll get more readings as well as take some samples of the vegetation for poison and nutrient testing. Tomorrow, or the day after, we’ll hopefully make it to the mountain range we spotted and find a good cave to make a permanent base camp.”

The man talked as if crashing on a planet were an everyday occurrence. Despite having lost his ship, he’d yet to say anything disparaging. Had yet to blame her for the shitshow she’d basically placed him in.

“Did you activate a beacon yet?”

He didn’t glance at her when he replied. “No. I thought we’d wait a little bit before putting our location out there for anyone to see.”

Good point. Right now, they were hidden. Even the Rhomanii couldn’t find them. It meant time alone to rest, recover, and spend time with Kobrah, the man who’d made her sing with pleasure and whose first impulse once they survived the crash was to kiss her.

She should have felt guilty about the fact she’d dragged him into this mess, but she must be selfish because, instead, she was glad.

I don’t know if I could have done this on my own. They’d trudged only two hours, and she was ready to call it quits. The rough terrain didn’t give her any breaks. The sun beat down hotly. Her body lagged and drooped under the weight of the pack she carried.

But she shouldn’t whine. He’d taken the biggest share of the cargo, slinging most of it on an anti-gravity sledge that he could pull. A large pack even hung from his back. He wouldn’t let Karo carry a thing other than her doll, and as for Dara, she just had a small sack with water, ration bars, and a medical kit.

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