Entrapped Worlds (Free Worlds Book 4) by Anderle Michael & Mclaughlin Kevin

Author:Anderle, Michael & Mclaughlin, Kevin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: LMBPN Publishing
Published: 2023-03-30T00:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY

The doctor left after a few minutes, telling Dane he had a few hours of treatment left, at least.

"You feeling all right?” Haley asked.

“I’m trying to, yeah. I mean, I thought we came all this way to avoid being injected with robots, and now I had it done to me in my sleep.”

“I know, but you’ll get used to the idea. It’s like the nessies.”

“How is it like the nessies?”

“They seemed bad at first, but after you learned more about them, it turned out they were super-useful to the colony?”

Dane tried to keep a scowl on his face, but he couldn’t help but laugh. “That’s actually a good comparison.”

“Thanks. I’ve been working on it for like nine hours.”

“What else have you been working on? Jesus, how’s Good? He’s got to be pissed about all this. And what about Paul? Is he all right?”

“Good’s pissed, yes. He put Paul on medical leave, he said for his own health, and Athanas said that’s technically true. She’s worried if he stayed down here, Good would have murdered him.”

Dane would have to check on that later. He couldn’t have those feelings fester in a team that had to be as tight as his security people on this planet. “Paul was hurt, then? Was he shot?”

“No. Clubbed in the back of the head.”

“Did he see anything?”

“He said a woman asked him for directions to the bathroom, and he told her. Then he got knocked out.”

“An accomplice?”

“We don’t know. Linda says no one tried to get in, but they could have heard the gunshots and vanished.”

“And the guy who shot me? Was he implanted?”

Lopez rolled her eyes. “We finally got MacTaggart to check. It doesn’t look like it.”

“Finally? They didn’t want to do that first thing?”

“MacTaggart is convinced there’s no way an Augmented could have slipped through their system.”

“That’s asinine.”

“That’s what Athanas wanted to tell him after she cracked his jaw.”

“She didn’t.”

“No. Thankfully not. She let me handle the ambassadorial duties and talk MacTaggart into having his people look. They didn’t find anything, but it was pretty messy.”

“Oh, Jesus. You saw it?”

“You think I hear gunshots coming from where my boyfriend is butt-ass naked, and I’m going to sit back and wait for someone to send me a text about it?”

“Glad to know I can count on you.”

“I didn’t do much. By the time I got there, the gunshots had already triggered an emergency response team. They bundled you up in the towels you had fallen on. You were so pale…and they wouldn’t let me ride in the aircar with you. I might have lost some ambassadorial points over that. When I got here, you were already out of surgery.

“I’ve been here ever since. I only stepped out to make a few calls. Well, more than a few, but we haven’t left you alone. Athanas is outside, as is Good, who is probably dying to come in and apologize right now. He’s also been running our investigation into the shooter.”

“The Centauri haven’t been?”

Haley snorted. “Oh, they definitely have.

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