The Jekh Saga Collection One by H.E. Trent

Author:H.E. Trent [Trent, H.E.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: sci-fi romance, science fiction romance, near future, space opera, menage, MMF, MFM, space, invasion romance, colonization romance, bisexual male
Publisher: Holley Trent
Published: 2018-12-26T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

Eileen waited with her back pressed to the end of the building at the alleyway, trying to be one with the shadows, and suspecting that she was failing. She wasn’t a waif possessing the innate ability to blend easily into backgrounds. She was a born and bred cowgirl with thunder thighs, wide hips, a huge droopy bosom, and a big ol’ mouth.

“They really expect me to wait like this?” she muttered.

Lillian hadn’t warned her that utilizing ninja skills were part and parcel of the mission.

Eileen gripped the handle of her duffel bag tighter and took another step back into the darkness as a police officer patrolling Buinet’s Zone Two ambled past with his wrist COM held close to his face as if he didn’t quite know how the damned things worked. He didn’t need to put his mouth so close. The microphones in most mobile COMs were sensitive enough to pick up a pin being dropped as far away as on Earth’s moon.

“Yeah,” he said into the COM. “Nothin’ happening out here. Tell Reg I did my rounds. I need to get back to my beat before someone who doesn’t know nothin’ finds out I’m off it.”

“Everything’s secure?” came the response.

“Yeah. Hey, listen—I know we’re kinda pinched for personnel here, but what happened to all those cops that came in on the transport last year? You’d think there’d be enough of them in Buinet that the city would have assigned a few to the depot.”

Eileen bit down hard on her tongue and slapped her hand over her mouth to tamp down her shout of glee. Thanks to the commissioner, Eileen knew exactly what had happened to about thirty of those cops. They’d bounced the hell off Jekh on the first ship the commissioner could get them on during the riots. They were Team “I didn’t sign up for this shit,” and as their coach, she’d been happy to see them go. She was happier, still, that they’d go home to Earth and run their mouths about what really was happening.

“Don’t concern yourself with them. Make sure the doors are locked and get back to work. That’s all you were sent to do.”

“Ten-four. Going now.”

The whistling cop dropped his wrist, turned on his heel, and then headed toward the huge bay doors at the back of the building.

As soon as he was gone, Eileen was supposed to go in. The commissioner had given her a special key card that wouldn’t get logged by the lock sensors. Her task was to get into the depot, find a certain ship, and to start the pre-launch sequence in advance of Salehi’s police department shift ending. The process could take minutes or hours, and she wouldn’t know what she was dealing with until she got into the cockpit. She didn’t even know what the ship looked like. Although she hadn’t been given explicit instructions, she was confident she could get the thing ready to launch. She hadn’t spent all those years on shuttles between Jekh and Earth without learning some things about how to fly them.

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