Hades: A Military Sci-Fi Series (Territory Wars Book 2) by Devon C. Ford

Author:Devon C. Ford [Ford, Devon C.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-11-22T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

Covert Meeting Facility, New Liberty Terminal

The discussions went on long into the night, with both sides giving up an inch at a time, which made the miles they were apart seem like an impossible void to cross.

Mark began looking at his watch testily after a few hours, covering his obvious irritability by stepping out to check the perimeter intermittently.

Mac and Anders rotated, one inside the room and one outside, relieving each other in turn, but Edwards stuck like glue to their principal like this was her big audition.

“I think we need to take a comfort break here, don’t you?” Sharpe said, surprising the other side of the table because she’d been on a roll and had forced admissions from them that they needed the help of the allied forces to prevent them from becoming an NRC outpost, but in doing so they didn’t want to relinquish their newly declared independence.

She rose, as graceful as her emissary title could imply, and Edwards rose with her.

The two women left the room, with Mac and Anders shifting position subtly so as to cover front and rear but not interfere with her free movement, and as Edwards passed by Mac to check the female toilets first, he muttered, “Told you you’d have to listen to her fart,” and earned an unprofessional swipe at his groin for annoying her.

“You’re clear, ma’am,” Edwards announced after checking the few stalls and finding them empty. Sharpe smiled and entered the closest one before shutting the flimsy door behind her.

“You know, Captain, I’m quite capable of peeing by myself. I’ve been doing it alone for a few years now,” she said, her voice echoing in the small ladies room.

“I know that, but this is for your benefit and not mine,” Edwards told her.

“Oh? How so?”

“Because if I wasn’t in here with you, then one of my other guys would be, and I can’t say much for their manners around people like yourself.”

The toilet flushed and Edwards frowned because she hadn’t heard the woman pee, let alone produce a Mac-predicted fart, like the VIP even did that with grace. Sharpe walked out and started to wash her hands thoroughly, talking to Edwards in the mirror.

“Your Major Harlan, is he not accustomed to polite society either?”

“Oh, he can pull off a suit as well as he can live in the field indefinitely. He’s… different,” she said with a shrug as she gave up trying to describe the man she’d had a crush on for the better part of two years.

Nothing would ever come of it, and if their personal relationship caused any kind of team friction, she knew she’d find herself rotated to another support role with SOG on an immediate basis with little or no explanation, so she kept it very much to herself. She’d heard of things like that happening in other teams all over, just as those who met the standard but failed the attitude tests moved from team to team until they found a home, but she didn’t want that shame attached to her file in any unofficial capacity.

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