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Styx, Rogue 5, Styx Legion Core Command Room
“Cerberus doesn’t deal in slaves. The female must be mistaken.”
“We can’t trust her, she’s Coalition.”
“What is Cerberus doing in that Sector? Is he trying to bring the entire f*****g Fleet to our door?”
Raised voices filled the meeting room, jumbled and arguing, one on top of the other in a cacophony of noise.
Still, it felt good to be home, to have my mate tended to. To know she was safe.
I let them argue, waiting for the inevitable verbal battle still to come. I’d told them about Harper, about the attack in Sector 437, the Cerberus uniforms. All of it.
I had yet to reveal to the men and women in this meeting room that Harper, a female from Earth, an active duty Coalition officer, a woman I’d taken from Zenith without permission or f
