The Lost Star Episode Two by Odette C. Bell

Author:Odette C. Bell [Bell, Odette C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Odette C. Bell

He sat in his office, drumming his fingers against his desk.

His face had paled to white. Ashen white, so pale it felt as if all the blood had drained from the capillaries and had sunk into his throbbing feet.

He wanted to push up, fight something, do something.

He couldn’t. There was not a single thing he could do.

He pressed three tensed fingers into his brow and drove his eyes closed.

Hunter had disappeared.

His ship was gone.

Not destroyed. Not stolen.

Just gone.

What the hell had happened? Had Harvey underestimated the Avixans, the Coalition too?

As he clenched his teeth together, he realized it couldn’t be the Coalition. If the top brass had discovered Hunter’s ship, it wouldn’t have taken long to realize Harvey had helped.

Harvey was still in command of the Mandalay, so it couldn’t be that.

The panel before him suddenly beeped.

The analysis of historical records was done.

Harvey had been true to his word.

He’d thrown himself into the task of finding out who the hell the Avixans were.

He’d been scouring the Coalition database for every mention of their race, no matter how obscure.

He’d also started pulling in favors.

He wanted to keep his investigation relatively quiet, so he kept his favors restricted to those he knew he could trust. Fortunately he’d gone to the Academy with the current head of the Coalition Archaeology Department.

Maryann Winchester.

He’d once had a fling with her. A petite brunette with the kind of infectious smile that made you grin even when you were feeling at your lowest.

As his computer panel beeped again, he cleared his throat. “Captain McClane here.”

“You know, you can just call yourself Harvey around me,” Maryann said with a grin.

A hologram of her hovered off his desk half a foot from his face.

He got the sudden and rather strange urge to reach out a hand and try to run his fingers along her cheek.

… He still hadn’t processed the fact Shera had turned on him.

No. Not turned on him. Used him. Shera and the rest of the resistance had been planning this for decades. Harvey had just been a means to an end.

He couldn’t let himself feel just how much that hurt. Because if he concentrated on the ache forming in his gut, he wouldn’t be able to push it away.

So he cleared his throat. “I just got your historical analysis. Anything interesting?”

She chuckled. “Do you think I’d be calling if there wasn’t anything interesting?”

She smiled, and despite the hole that had opened up in his chest, he found himself smiling too. “Don’t keep me hanging - what have you got?”

“Well, I cross-referenced data from the last several eons, looking for any race with close links to the Avixans who could fit into the legend of the outsiders.”

Harvey had told Maryann everything. He’d also told her that she couldn’t breathe a word of this to anyone. This was the greatest secret for the Avixans. Sure, they were in a civil war right now, but if things ever settled down and they found out Ava had shared this, she’d be dead.

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