Kestrel (STARHAWK #1) by Adrienne Lothy EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Authors: Adrienne Lothy
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I’ve Got You
NIKO NEVER THOUGHT HE’D be back here again.
He pursed his lips and glanced around the conference room of Station
Twelve. It had been over three years since he’d last stepped into the
crowded little city-moon of Kaapra-19’s Galactic Police headquarters. Its
arched ceilings towered above him, warm light cast back upon itself in the
mirror-polish of marbled floors. Old faces had greeted him enthusiastically
at every step back into this building, people who he’d once known as
friends and colleagues.
Several of them had actually stopped him along the way to ask how he
was or recount some of his past triumphs at hunting—cornering one
fugitive on an abandoned colony moon by bringing down the derelict
buildings around him with explosions, catching another after a four-hour
nonstop pursuit through an acidic alien bog. He’d been stalled under all the
attention for a good twenty minutes before Zann, Station Twelve’s lead
investigator and Niko’s half-brother, came and waved everyone away and
dragged him back into the conference room for a private briefing.
“So,” Zann started. With a lazy wave of his hand, he summoned a
holographic menagerie of grisly case file images that spanned the length of
the entire wall. Their pale light washed over the room, painting everything a
ghostly blue in stark contrast to the warm lights of the station. “You’re
going to help me take him down, right?”
“I don’t know, Zann,” Niko said. “I never really planned to go back to
bounty hunting.”
It was a lie and it wasn’t. Niko missed hunting. He craved it like he
craved air—brimming with adrenaline as he slowly wore down the galaxy’s
worst fugitives until they had nowhere left to run made Niko feel alive in a
way nothing else ever had.
But he also knew what hunting did to him. Years later, he still bore the
scars, some deeper than others. It took a toll on him, each job a little more
than the last, each reckless injury a little harder to get back up from.
The last one had left him unable to get up at all.
“Then why keep the ship all this time?” Zann asked.
“Sunk cost fallacy. I’ve put thousands into modding it.”
“That’s bullshit and you know it. You practically worship that thing. I
know you’ve been training with the suit, too. You even showed up in it.
Besides, if money is an issue, I’ve already spoken with the chief and they
gave authorization for Galapol to fund any supplies you’ll need for this.”
Zann leaned back against the long, shiny oak conference table and
crossed his arms. Niko glanced at him.
They made quite the odd pair. He
didn’t resemble his brother much—next to Niko’s muscled frame and bulky
suit of tech-armor, Zann stood skinny and sleek. His short-cropped hair
grew in glossy, tight coils, his rich, ebony skin and high cheekbones
favoring his father over their shared mother.
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