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Bryn
I never expected to laugh with Blade’s ion blaster shoved at my chest. But when he and two of his men insisted my shuttle had been commandeered? When he informed me that Styx was keeping the shuttle as a bonus payment on Garvos’s bounty? That Katie and I were being transported back to Everis the moment we were clear of the magnetic asteroid belt? I readily agreed. He would get no argument from me. In fact, I could have kissed him for it. Instead, I shook the Hyperion’s hand and bade him good luck with the shuttle before wrapping my arm about my mate’s waist and holding her close as the technician locked in the coordinates into the mobile transport unit and banished us from Hyperion space.
When I opened my eyes, saw the familiar, yet utilitarian, transport station at the Touchsto
