Pursuit by Val St. Crowe

Author:Val St. Crowe [St. Crowe, Val]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Punk Rawk Books
Published: 2018-02-06T22:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Eve was still screaming when she came back to herself, but she was no longer in the cargo bay. She’d been taken upstairs to the medic bay, and she was lying on a cot.

The captain was in there with her, pacing at the foot of the cot, his expression steely.

Eve sat up. “We can’t go to Hoder. There’s a vidya waiting for us there. It kills you.”

The captain stopped pacing and glared at her. “That’s a nice touch. Putting my safety in question. Very good.”

“What are you talking about?” she said. “You’ve got to be the most stubborn man in the galaxy if you still don’t believe my visions are real.”

“No, I believe,” he said, putting his hands on his hips. “But that doesn’t mean you can’t fake one.”

Her jaw dropped.

He raised his eyebrows, challenging her to say something.

So, she did. “You really think I would fake a vision?”

“It’s awfully convenient for you, isn’t it? I’m about to get rid of you, and you tell me that I can’t. Even make it so that I’m in personal danger.”

“I would never do that.”

“You say that, but I don’t really know you, princess. You were raised by some weird cult who lives underground like insects, and you’ve brought nothing but pain and suffering since you arrived. I can’t handle having you around anymore.”

“Fine,” she said, folding her arms over her chest. “But you can’t get rid of me on Hoder.”

“You tell me what you saw in the vision, maybe we can avoid it. Where did you see this vidya? Was it in a populated place?”

“Actually, yes, the spaceport.”

“Okay, so we don’t land at the spaceport.”

“What? You drop me off in the middle of nowhere and leave me to starve?”

His nostrils flared. “No, damn it, I’ll escort you to the spaceport myself after we land—”

“And you’ll still die, because I didn’t see us land. I saw you and me moving through people at the spaceport, and the vidya came up behind you and punched through your chest, and—” She found that her eyes were filling with tears. “It was awful. It went on and on. You didn’t die right away. You were struggling and gasping, and there was blood. There was a lot of blood. It was everywhere and—”

“Stop.”

She drew in a shuddering breath. “I don’t want that to happen to you.”

“Oh, you care so much about me?”

“I…” She hugged herself. “You saved my life. You’re very brave. Sure, you have some rough edges, but deep down, I think you’re a good man, and I don’t want anything to happen to you.” Her feelings for the captain certainly hadn’t attained any level of romantic infatuation or anything, but she respected him and she thought he was attractive, and she thought that was probably enough. She could do what she needed to do with him to bring forth the champion. But she couldn’t if he was dead.

The captain looked down at his feet. His voice was quiet. “You’re not making this easy for me.

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