Incursion: A Space Opera Harem Adventure (The Lost Fleet Book 1) by Sarah Hawke

Author:Sarah Hawke [Hawke, Sarah]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: space opera
Publisher: Jade Fantasy
Published: 2022-06-21T16:00:00+00:00

8

New Frontiers

Some of the other natty ’pounders followed me to the locker room, laughing and crowing like they had just watched a championship bout. I humored them on the way, though frankly I was more amused by the way the jenny girls in Arneson’s posse were looking at me after the fight. I probably could have polluted their gene pool a bit more that night if I’d played my cards right, but I decided to gracefully slip away and leave my fellow Immortal with a shred of his dignity intact. It wasn’t until I was showered up and ready to leave the now-deserted locker room that my decision was validated.

“It looked dicey there for a few minutes.”

I looked up from the bench where I was lacing up my black boots. At first, the only thing I could see in the shadowy doorway was a pair of bare, slender legs, but then Miranda stepped all the way into the light. She flashed me a grin, arms folded over her chest.

“I really thought he was going to pitch you over the ropes,” she added. “But you always seem to have a trick up your sleeve, don’t you?”

“Usually,” I said, smiling up at her as I finished tying my laces. “I admit, I never would have taken you for a throw-boxing fan.”

“Oh, I’m not. But when I decided to track you down, I wasn’t all that surprised to see you were interested in the only sport where you get repeatedly punched in the face.”

“What can I say? I’ve always been a glutton for punishment.”

Miranda chuckled. “To be honest, I’ve never understood the appeal. Throw-boxing in particular has always just seemed so…”

“Brutish? Savage?”

“Primitive.”

“Ah.” I rose to my feet and gave her a full-body shrug. “Well, I am a natty. We’re basically barbarians.”

Her smile turned wry. “True enough.”

I stepped closer to her. “What made you track me down? We’re a long way from the Command Deck.”

Her face brightened as she uncrossed her arms and pointed at the new insignia above her left breast. “I just wanted to share the good news. I officially earned my commission this morning.”

“Congratulations, Ensign,” I said earnestly. “Does that mean that your plan…?”

“Worked flawlessly,” she beamed. “On the first try! Can you believe it?”

“That’s…incredible,” I breathed, glancing down at her stomach even though she obviously wouldn’t be showing after only a few short days. Honestly, it seemed miraculous that they knew she was pregnant this early.

“The clairvoyants said the embryo already shows great potential,” Miranda said. “The medics will extract it soon and move it to the cryo-labs to be put in stasis until the next birthing cycle.”

I pushed my tongue hard into the back of my teeth. This whole arrangement still seemed surreal—and a little disturbing. When you got a girl pregnant back home, it was a life-changing affair. She puffed up and you earned yourself a whole host of new responsibilities. But here…here it was like it didn’t even matter.

Children didn’t even matter.

And knowing how quickly my seed

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