Honor and Shadows by Jessie Mihalik EPUB & PDF – eBook Details Online
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- Author: Jessie Mihalik
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As we approached the landing zone, I couldn’t decide if the man
who’d allegedly stolen more than a million credits from one of the
largest conglomerates in the galaxy had incredibly terrible or incredibly
brilliant taste in hideouts. Either way, the tiny, dusty village on a backwater
mining planet was not what I’d expected.
Starlight’s Shadow settled onto the sole landing pad in the spaceport—a
fancy name for what amounted to a glorified field. Nearby, a small cluster
of buildings served as the village square, and a few dozen houses were
scattered around seemingly at random.
Eli, my first officer, turned to me from his place at the tactical terminal
and tilted his head skeptically. “Are you sure this is the right place?” Eli had
the face of an angel on the body of a bruiser. Tall and muscled, with deep
brown skin and warm brown eyes, Elias Bruck was uncannily handsome, a
fact that Kee—my systems engineer—and I ribbed him about ruthlessly.
But he’d also hauled us out of more than our fair share of messes,
something he didn’t let us forget. The good-natured teasing went both ways.
“Kee tracked the bounty, and she’s never wrong, so I’m going to go
with yes.”
Eli grinned. “Well, there was that one time…”
“That wasn’t my fault,” Kee said without looking at us. Her hands flew
over the screen of her navigation and systems terminal. “They were using
bad data and didn’t know it, but that’s not the case this time. Alan Hudson
is here,” she said with complete confidence. There wasn’t a system
designed that Kee Ildez couldn’t find a way into—legal or not.
If she thought Alan was here, then he was here.
Kee’s pale skin, rainbow hair, and delicate build disguised a sharp mind
and a fierce optimism. Kee and Eli had both been soldiers in my squad
during the war, and pain and fear and death had hardened the bond between
us into something as close as family. I would always, always have their
backs, just as they would have mine.
Even if we did occasionally poke fun at one another.
“If I had a million credits, I’d be somewhere nicer than this,” Eli
groused. “How long do you think it’s been since an outsider showed up?”
“Hopefully a long time,” I said, “or this trip is going to be worthless. If
Alan is smart—and I have no reason to believe otherwise, since he’s eluded
capture for more than two years—then he already knows we’re here. We
need to move.”
Bounties from the big conglomerates weren’t my first choice, but the
last few months had been extremely lean. We needed an infusion of credits
however we could get them. But even when I was desperate, there were a
host of bounties I wouldn’t touch. Anyone with credits could post a bounty
and most of their reasons were shady as hell.
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