Captain of the Maw (Unusual Pirates Book 1) by Layla Stone

Author:Layla Stone [Stone, Layla]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prompt Penworks
Published: 2020-11-30T16:00:00+00:00

Nineteen

Horace’s Trap

Fenton was tense.

She saw the navigation screen and knew that they had passed into uncharted territory. Meaning the navigation wasn’t showing a flight path. Kava was flying by sight. Half of the navigation screen was infrared, and the other half visual.

They had slowed their engines to an idle. A lifepod might be faster than they were flying at the moment.

A red blur streaked across the screen, and Kava darted up, then down, then twice to the left.

“I hate this,” Fenton mumbled, holding on to both arms of her chair.

“Trust, love. Trust.”

She closed her eyes, thinking it was better, but then he veered again and shot one of the torpedoes. Opening her eyes, she watched it hit an already broken ship clump in front of them.

“I hate this,” she said again, tucking her feet under her.

“You already said that,” he replied, veering again.

Kava moved around the trap, missing every deadly thing that came at them. It took longer than it should have for her to figure out that he knew what would happen before it did. Setting her feet back on the floor, she watched Kava and not the screen. She saw his eyes dart to the side right before another series of weapons were deployed or she even saw any ships in the way.

“How many times did you fly into this trap before you memorized the attacks?”

“I didn’t memorize the attacks.”

At that, she looked around and nodded. “You can hear the minds of the people trying to attack us?”

“No. This trap is automated.”

“How do you know that…oh, you sneaky Demon.”

He grinned.

Fenton sat back, a little starstruck. “You built Horace’s Trap?”

Kava dipped the ship and gunned the engines to miss a five-missile threat. He answered after. “Yep.”

“Why?”

“You’ll see,” he said and shot at the next series of asteroids in the way.

Knowing that this was his creation, she leaned forward, paying closer attention to what the trap entailed. She could see how it was expertly timed for someone who knew the way—and someone who didn’t.

“If someone were following you into the trap, they wouldn’t be able to get through doing the same things you are.”

“Exactly,” he said smugly.

Her pirate was clever. She’d give him that.

After the next three dips, she noticed a warning. Something other than the proximity notice from the incoming weapons. Pointing at the navigation screen, she said, “What is that?”

He looked at her and then said, “It’s what I’ve kept secret.”

Raising her brows, she hoped he would tell her, but he seemed to like to do things the hard way. That’s when the ship lurched forward, and Kava powered off the engines, letting go of the flight controls.

Her stomach squeezed, and the pressure in her head hurt. She fell off the chair but never hit the floor. She was suddenly wrapped in Kava’s arms. She knew it because she knew him, even though she felt too queasy to open her eyes.

Moments later, it passed, and she staggered off his lap and straight to the cleaners to throw up.

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