Deception! by Joshua James & Daniel Young

Author:Joshua James & Daniel Young [James, Joshua & Young, Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-06-13T16:00:00+00:00

Nine

Eli curled his lip at the kid. “What in the name of Christ is that doing here?”

“He stowed away,” Jood replied. “He stashed himself in a locker in the galley. He must have left the Little Mermaid when we parted from him at the entrance. I can only assume he scurried to our parking spot and infiltrated the Boomerang long before the alarm went out that we had kidnapped Tanner. The boy never would have gotten near the ship otherwise, because the troops were swarming all over the place by the time I got back to her. I found him in the locker after I hid her here. I didn’t think you would want him stored in a locker, so I put him here until you could decide what to do with him.”

River shouldered past the two men and barged into the cabin. “You shouldn’t be here, Miles. You could get your head blown off. Don’t you know it’s a capital felony to stow away on someone else’s ship?”

He grinned up at her with wide, almost admiring eyes. “I had to do it, River. You know I did. You know I’ve been searching for a way out of the Little Mermaid for years. You did it; now it’s my turn. Don’t tell me I shouldn’t have left. We both know that’s shit.” He burst into an even wider grin, if that was possible. “This is so great! You really did a number on Tanner, didn’t you?”

“Holy Mother of God!” Yasha muttered. “Listen to this fool!”

Miles looked from one face to the next. He looked more and more delighted as the seconds ticked by. “You guys must really be something else to get off Pi Squared Two the way you did, with all of Tanner’s men searching for you. I don’t know any other crew in the galaxy who could pull off a stunt like that. I knew you did well for yourself, River. I mean, the great Eli Bryce! Everyone admires you, sir. There’s no shame in admitting that. Everybody knows how you stuck it to the Squadrons and the Mysterium both, and then you stuck it to Tanner by stealing River.”

Eli smacked his lips. “I did not steal River—not from Tanner or anybody else.”

River lifted one stout hand and slapped Miles across the back of the head. “Are you irretrievably stupid, or just too naïve to know your ass from your elbow? Shit, Miles, Tanner is locked up with Waylon in the cabin next door as we speak. Now his whole damned army is hunting us. Do you have any idea what they’ll do to us if they catch us? What am I thinking? Of course you do, and now that you’re here, they’ll do the same thing to you.”

Miles stared at her in blank shock. “You—you snatched Tanner! You…you took Tanner off of…” He gasped, and his face lit up like a veritable Christmas tree. “That is so, so cool! You guys are the best! I knew I didn’t make a mistake hitching a ride with you.

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