Justin by Allyson James

Author:Allyson James [James, Allyson]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Romance
Publisher: JA / AG Publishing
Published: 2012-02-19T18:56:31+00:00

When Justin woke again, his body sore and sated, Deanna was gone. She wasn’t in the shower—too bad—not in the living room waiting for him, not in the kitchen trying to scare up something to eat.

Justin pulled on his tunic and shoes, tied back his hair, and stepped outside into fading daylight. Maybe she’d gone to a vendors for some dinner. The gods knew Justin never had any food in the house.

The car was gone. Justin stopped, not liking how empty that made him feel. Logically, Deanna could have simply gone to return the car to wherever she’d hired it before she was charged for another day. Justin had been sleeping so hard that she might have shouted in his ears that she was going, and he’d never have heard.

But Justin knew somehow that she wouldn’t be back tonight.

He went to the crowded marketplace around the corner, hoping against hope to see his patroller wandering among the stalls. He did see patrollers, two of them, buttoned up, hair in tight buns, but no Deanna.

“Justin.”

Justin looked behind him to see an off-world man, taller than most Bor Nargan men, in a dusty pilot’s coverall, his mussed hair light brown, his eyes deep green.

“Mitch,” Justin grunted. “Didn’t know you were back.”

“Got here this morning. Rees is looking for you. And me.”

Justin had no interest in talking to Rees right now, but he figured he might as well get it over with. “If you just got here this morning, why are you out here on the street and not inside doing Judith?”

“It’s her busiest business time. Thought I’d give her a break.”

“Nice of you.”

“I’m a nice guy.”

Mitch didn’t break a smile as they started down the market street, whose artificial light glittered on tables filled with bright silks, cheap jewelry, fruits from all over the galaxy, piles of exotic spices, and shining mechanical parts. Women in everything from drab work-gray to silks as bright as the jewels they haggled for moved from stall to stall, the richer ones followed by servants who carried all the goods they bought.

“It’s pretty here, in a weird way,” Mitch said as they walked through the colorful chaos.

“Weird is right.”

“Sirius is drab,” Mitch said.

Yes, everyone wondered why Justin had returned to his native land, leaving the relative freedom of Sirius. Mitch was a laidback guy—very different from Bor Nargan men, even different from men on Sirius, who were pretty much into hard work, their idea pleasure being one beer and a good night’s sleep. Mitch would never directly ask Justin his reasons for returning, but Justin felt his curiosity.

“Come on,” Justin said. “I bet Rees told us to haul our asses.”

“True,” Mitch said, finally grinning, and they walked on through the streets, until they reached the basement apartment where Rees lived with his lifemate.

Rees had lived here for years before he’d met Talan d’Urvey, his lady-love. Talan had a nice big house to herself on a nearby moon, but Rees and she stayed in the apartment when they were in Pas City.

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