Frost Station Alpha 1-6: The Complete Series by Ruby Lionsdrake

Author:Ruby Lionsdrake [Lionsdrake, Ruby]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General Fiction
Amazon: B014LRV75O
Published: 2015-09-05T16:00:00+00:00

Part 4: Contagion

Chapter 16

Makkon waved his finger, flipping through the pages of data that floated in the air above him, barely seeing any of it. He was leaning against the wall by the door, where he could keep an eye on the Fleet soldier and Tamryn, not that either of them was looking at him. The soldier had turned his back to him, though from the tense hunch to his shoulders, Makkon could tell he wasn’t asleep. He looked like a man fearing he was about to receive a dagger in the back. Tamryn sat in the corner of the room, her knees drawn up to her face. He didn’t think she was crying, but she looked miserable. He tried not to find that a reflection of what she’d thought of their kiss. He had enjoyed it very much. It had been so much more enthusiastic and full of passion than the one from earlier, the one where she’d had an ulterior motive. He’d never thought he would experience her passion, or that she might actually come to care for him.

But he didn’t know if she would ever kiss him again now. She clearly saw it as a mistake, something to be ashamed of, something that might have been all right if they didn’t have a witness, but not something she could ever do in front of her people, not without being considered a traitor. Makkon understood that, knew her distress was because they were enemies, or they were supposed to be, and not because she had realized that he was... that he was an abomination by the standards of the rest of the system. She hadn’t seemed to care that his ancestors had been born in laboratories and were soulless heathens according to the system’s main religion, or what had been the main religion back then, but he couldn’t help but wonder if that was some of why she was so distressed that someone had witnessed their kiss.

Sighing, he made himself focus on the display. Before he’d grown distracted—delightfully distracted—he had meant to look up her family, to see if that pirate had been crazy or if he had known something his team hadn’t. That wouldn’t take much, given their missing hundred and fifty years. He felt guilty, using her tablet to snoop into her background, but his own personal computer didn’t have access to the system-wide network. Though they were too far out to get updates in a timely manner, the tablet had a massive database on its harddrive, or perhaps accessible through some mainframe computer in the station. He couldn’t get into any of her personal files, or see any of her messages, but the general information displayed for him, allowing him to do a search.

When he typed in her name, a handful of Tamryn Pavlenkos came up, but she was the only one serving in the military. Her records couldn’t be accessed without a password to get into the Fleet database, but that wasn’t surprising. As young as she was, she wouldn’t have much of a record, anyway.

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