Conviction by Glynn Stewart

Author:Glynn Stewart [Stewart, Glynn]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Faolan's Pen Publishing
Published: 2020-01-27T16:00:00+00:00

Despite the orders she’d given, Kira was somehow unsurprised to see her two Hoplites appear out of nova less than five minutes after she’d sent Cartman to retrieve the freighters.

“They were already gone, weren’t they?” she asked Nightmare without preamble. The light from those novas would probably be reaching them in the next few minutes, even if her long-range scanners still showed her the theoretically civilian ships.

“Got it in one,” Nightmare replied. “Fuckers.”

“Whole thing was staged,” Kira concluded. “Davies—or whatever the hell his name actually is— didn’t save the convoy. He and the gunships had been staging that fake duel, occasionally turning the jammers on and off, for a while. Definitely hours. Probably not days, if only because we were here only a few days ago.”

“Commander, I suggest we pull at least a third of the fighters back aboard,” Zoric told her. “The ones who were just patrolling at the last rest point, if nothing else. You’ve basically been in the cockpit for eight hours now, Basketball.

“You need to rest.”

Kira didn’t want to do any such thing. She wanted to find the sons of bitches who’d killed Daniel Mbeki and burn them to pieces. Intellectually, she knew that he’d killed his own killers, firing his torpedo into the corvette even as its main gun had vaporized him.

“All right. Nightmare—assume command,” she ordered.

They’d have to sort out who was in charge of Darkwing Squadron going forward, but that was Estanza’s problem. Not hers.

Her problem was how to deal with losing a man she had no real reason to call hers.

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