Alpha Star: Big Sky Alien Mail Order Brides #1 (Intergalactic Dating Agency): Intergalactic Dating Agency by Jade Elsa

Author:Jade,Elsa [Jade,Elsa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Red Circle Ink
Published: 2016-09-27T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 10

On the bridge of the Sinner’s Prayer, Sin paced while his first officer and pilot tried to determine how a piece of the ship had blown off without anyone noticing.

The sensors had no record of a temp flux on landing. Probably it was nothing and he was being overly suspicious to counteract his utter failure on the dating and mating front.

Except, in his own defense, the mating had gone quite well.

Too well, or he wouldn’t have two of his five mating rings. The singilt in his tongue and ear were the lesser of the five rings. His body might even reabsorb them if he had no further contact with Zoe Nazario.

He needed a bride to claim his solar system, and he needed to save his rings for his bride, and Zoe couldn’t be his bride, ergo to claim his solar system he must avoid her. A few thousand lightyears should do the trick.

But he wasn’t taking the Prayer around the block with a missing shield tile and no explanation. The ship was his life and the life of his crew—literally.

He slammed the comm button on his chair. “Honey, report.”

“Once upon a time, there was a very cranky starship captain—”

Sin slumped into his chair. “Not a book report.”

“It was a boring book anyway. I burned it.”

“Fine, but I don’t want my ship to burn.”

“She shouldn’t.” But Honey’s tone wavered.

“Shouldn’t?” Sin queried. “Can’t is the word I’m looking for.”

“Never say can’t.” A deep sigh. “But I can’t find any reason for the tile loss or the lack of sensor warning. I need to see the outside of the ship. We’ll have to drop the mimic shroud.”

Sin scowled. “So any Earther can see us?”

Ivan’s deeper voice interrupted. “At this point, Captain, only a visual inspection of the tiles might jar something loose in this mystery.”

Since jarring anything else loose was exactly what he didn’t want to happen, Sin agreed, reluctantly. The IDA rep would shit a larf if it knew, but they were out in the middle of nowhere for a reason.

He reset the proximity sensors for a farther range, to keep an eye out for intruders while they were exposed, and headed out to join his crewmates.

Most of the time he exited the ship in a hail of plasma rockets and other incendiaries. It was novel and sort of nice to stride through the hatch and down the ramp accompanied only by the cool, quiet whisper of wind in the trees. Maybe planetside life wouldn’t be so bad—

“Sinclarion Jax?”

He whirled, reaching for his pulse pistol. And his hand whiffed past his unarmed hip. This was supposed to be a peaceful, easy trip…

If only he’d listened to Honey’s advice about strafing from orbit.

He peered at the unfamiliar Earther female emerging through the trees. What was she doing out here? There were no easy roads for the surface cruisers to travel; part of the reason the Sinner’s Prayer had been directed to land here. More interestingly, how did she know his name?

He stalked the rest of the way down the ramp.

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