The First Starfighter by Grace Goodwin

Author:Grace Goodwin [Goodwin, Grace]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: KSA Publishers

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Alex, Starfighter Base on the Moon Arturri

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The ship was guided in through the last grid by the autonav system, and the sigh I heard escape from Jamie echoed my thoughts exactly.

What a nightmare. An unexpected confrontation and fight with the Dark Fleet.

On her first day. I’d hoped to ease her into a battle, but that was the way of it with Queen Raya. Fuck.

Jamie had been so happy and excited about seeing the ship. She’d thrown herself into my arms, and I’d dragged her to the control room, getting a taste of what our future might be. Full of trust. Passion. A partnership in all things.

After, when we’d taken the starfighter out, she’d smiled with my home world spinning below us, the joy on her face making her radiant. Shockingly beautiful. Just watching her, I’d wanted her more than I had before, enough to bring me to my knees.

Then the Scythe fighters attack had killed every ounce of happiness in her. She couldn’t question if this was real now. Our role in this war was devastatingly dangerous. The damage to the Valor was proof of that. An entire section of the rear weapons system was half missing, the control panel nothing more than scorched remnants. The cockpit cover had taken damage from our high-speed encounter with debris from the first ship Jamie had destroyed, the cracks not deep enough to kill us but enough that the entire cover would have to be replaced. The laser cannon power supply was down by fifty percent, and our front-facing missiles were gone. We would need replacements at once. Unfortunately, as I inspected the bottom side of the wings, I saw that two mounting brackets had been damaged as well.

The best repair crew on base would need several hours to repair the minor damage. I had no idea how long the weapon control system would require.

A full day? Two?

I had walked around the entire ship inspecting the damage while Jamie sat in the pilot’s seat, staring at nothing, and I had not registered her distress.

What kind of bondmate was I? It angered me that I would only find my bondmate through a training program, that the only reason she would come to Velerion was because of her fighting prowess. I’d intentionally brought my mate from her own home world to fight in my war, for my people. She was beautiful and soft, and I’d made her face death. I’d been beside her and watched her kill.

Wanted her to kill. Been thrilled and proud of her skill. I had not thought of what any of this would mean for her. She’d played a game, not trained for battle as I had.

“Jamie?”

Startled, she crawled out of our ship, and I held up a hand to assist her down the retractable steps. Even though she placed her palm in mine, she didn’t see me. She appeared to be so tangled up in her own thoughts it was as if she were on another planet.

Maybe she was wishing she were back on Earth.

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