Invaders by Bella Forrest

Author:Bella Forrest [Forrest, Bella]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Nightlight Press
Published: 2018-06-21T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Three

“Can he hear us over this thing?” I whispered, pointing at the comms system.

Bashrik shook his head. “He’s transmitting in. We have to send a transmission out if we want to reply.”

“I’m waiting!” the voice remarked. There was something so familiar about it, but something was throwing off my memory, making it impossible to place the speaker.

“Well, you can keep waiting for all I care,” Angie muttered. “The two of you aren’t boarding that ship. I don’t give a damn what he does about our… membrane.”

“You’ll care when we all get sucked out into space,” Bashrik replied, though not unkindly.

“Bashrik is correct. If you do not go, then he’ll kill everyone on board,” Xiphio added, with a worried grimace.

Navan was oddly silent.

“Penny for your thoughts?” I said, gazing into his eyes. “Whoever he is, he only wants me and you. The trouble is, can we trust that he won’t just kill everyone anyway, once he has us where he wants us?”

“You don’t recognize that voice?” he replied.

“I’ve been trying to place it…”

“That’s Aurelius. I’d know that snake anywhere.”

My eyes went wide in surprise as realization dawned. “It is Aurelius! Why would he want us to come on board his ship? Do you think Gianne sent him?”

“I wouldn’t put it past her. We’ve caused her enough trouble, and she’s probably still itching for vengeance against my father.”

“So, what do we do?”

“If you keep me waiting a moment longer, I shall blast you out of the sky!” Aurelius snapped, his voice crackling through the speakers. We needed to hurry up and make a decision before he made it for us.

“You know you can’t trust him, right?” Bashrik said, as our group huddled around the controls.

“That goes without saying,” I muttered.

“But if you stay here and do not abide by his wishes, he’ll ensure an agonizing death in the depths of space.” Xiphio looked more panicked than any of us. “I don’t wish you to put yourselves in harm’s way, but we really are in quite the predicament here. Can we inform the Fed—would they be able to get here in time?”

“If you’re seeking to buy time for yourselves, your actions are fruitless. I have jammed your comms systems. The only channel you may respond to is mine,” Aurelius’s voice chimed through, as though he could hear every word we were saying. I flashed a dubious look at Bashrik, who shrugged.

“Honestly, he can’t hear us.”

“If we can’t call for backup, and we’re vulnerable without our windshield, then we only have one option left,” Navan said solemnly. “We go in, heavily armed, and see what the bastard wants.”

“And maybe kill him, if you get close enough?” Angie whispered eagerly. “I don’t know the creep personally, but after everything you’ve told me, the dude probably deserves a knife to the throat.”

I smiled at her enthusiasm, my own desire for revenge burning brightly. “I agree. We get in, see what he wants, and punish him for everything he’s done to Seraphina. After all his years of whispering in ears, maybe it’s time someone silenced him.

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