At Star's End by Anna Hackett

Author:Anna Hackett
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2014-04-24T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Nine

She looked normal, felt mostly normal. Eos looked at herself in the mirror as she pulled on her black cargo pants and an olive-green shirt. A quick twist and her hair was back in its usual ponytail. Okay, maybe she didn’t feel quite back to normal.

She pressed a hand to her jumpy belly. Her time on Lucifa lurked in the back of her head but what she and Dathan had done in that bath blazed at the front.

Suva, she’d never felt passion like that. She’d expected hot, sweaty and pleasurable. Not intense and soul destroying.

But he hadn’t wanted her enough to make love to her.

Reaching up, she tightened her hair tie, ignoring the hard knot in her chest. He’d done her a huge favor. Any intimacy with Dathan Phoenix would be temporary. She knew she was just part of this adventure. When the next adventure—and the next woman—came along, he’d be off.

She wanted more than that. She deserved more than that.

Enough of Dathan Phoenix. Soon they’d reach Beta7 and they needed a plan on how to uncover the colony.

When she stepped into the main part of the ship, she wondered if she had “Dathan just gave me a fantastic orgasm” written all over her face.

Her gaze was drawn to him. He stood at the doorway into the cockpit, a Sync in hand. His head snapped up, his gaze unreadable. But then she saw a flare in the blue and it made her tingle.

She deliberately looked away.

“Eos?” Niklas stood over a holo-table—a smaller version of what they had in Mission Control on Khan. “If you’re feeling better, how about you help me go over these records on the treasures of the New Louvre?”

She nodded, grateful for the distraction, and before long was immersed in the records. “Some of these I’ve never seen before.” She tapped the table, looking at the scanned records. “Where’d you get these? They should be in the Institute Archives.”

Niklas coughed. “How about we leave it at, you don’t want to know?”

She rolled her eyes. “Fine.” She studied his serious face. He was more rugged than Dathan, a squarer jaw, a more studious look to him. “You really don’t miss the Institute?”

He paused, considering. “I thought I did at first. Mainly I was just angry.” His gaze flicked up to hers. “And no, I don’t want to talk about what happened. Let’s just say I had a falling out with the powers that be.”

“You’re better off without the narrow-minded bastards,” Dathan said.

Eos had always wondered what having a brother or sister was like. Looking at the Phoenix brothers made her realize it was something special. They might be rogues, but whatever happened, they were there for each other. No matter what.

Niklas shrugged. “Besides, I’ve seen some pretty amazing things I would never have seen if I’d stayed at the Institute. I got to hold a starglobe in my own hands.”

Her mouth dropped open. “No.”

“Yes.” He looked down at the holo-table. “And I plucked an Egyptian canopic jar from the rubble of Selene City on Genysis.

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