Rogue's Gambit (Rogue Star Book 11) by Ava York

Author:Ava York [York, Ava]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Clockwalk Publishing
Published: 2019-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

Indira

“Don’t worry,” I said, trying to sound as kind as I could. “You’re in good hands now.” Pressing a button on my console, I looked up at the woman and smiled as a glass dome started sliding over her body. Dark bruises covered most of her body, especially in the places where the seat belt had been, but she didn’t seem to be bleeding internally. If she were, she would have died hours ago.

“Thank you,” she muttered meekly, the translator struggling to process her words. She spoke in a dialect I didn’t recognize, nor did anyone aboard the ship, and I had no idea what species she belonged to. She looked humanoid in appearance, and from a distance she could be mistaken for a human female, if you ignored the pale green tint to her skin. Once you were close enough, though, the differences were easy to spot, especially when it came to the eyes: the irises were far larger than a human’s would be, and they didn’t leave any space for the white to show.

“What do you have?” I asked Zayn. My second-in-command in the med bay, he was a quiet but capable man. He sat beside me, hunched over the medical console, and his eyes were narrowed as he read the results of the scan we were doing.

“No internal trauma or anything that I can see,” he whispered. “It’s mostly the bruises.”

“Well, that’s some good news.”

“There’s something odd here, though,” he continued. “She seems to have a neural implant of sorts in her head, some kind of neural inhibitor.”

“A neural inhibitor? What is it doing?”

“I have no idea,” he shrugged. “Hard to tell without cutting it off her.”

“Christ,” I breathed out, raking one hand over my face. I didn’t like the sound of that one bit. Sighing, I realized we wouldn’t get any more information through medical scans. I would have to go and talk to her. Thankfully, she had regained consciousness after Bana brought her into the bay. She seemed a bit dazed and confused, but otherwise fine.

Tapping the medical console, I forced the glass dome to slide back into its partition and then walked from behind the console and toward the woman. I grabbed a chair and sat beside her, doing my best to keep a smile on my face.

“How are you feeling?” I asked her. She grimaced, as if my question reminded her of all the bruises covering her body, and tried to get up. I placed one hand on her shoulder and gently pushed her to remain lying down. “Easy now. Don’t push yourself.”

“I’m sore all over,” she groaned. Her tone was quiet and serene, and there was a kind of musicality to it. “Where am I?”

“A spaceship,” I replied, fully knowing I had to be careful with the information I allowed her to know. “We’re in the Hark System. We found your spaceship stranded right outside of it.”

Closing her eyes, she bit on the corner of her bottom lip, the lines on her forehead deepening.

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