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Keltie grabbed Grayson.
“We can’t go back to Kepler,” she said.
Grayson stopped, and they stared each other down in the darkness.
“We’ve got orders. There may be more people in danger—”
“Listen to me,” Keltie said. “If we go back there, we will die. And this entire rescue mission will have been for nothing.”
“We’re a rescue ship, Keltie. This is what we do.”
“I watched them kill my best friend!” Keltie cried. “They killed everyone in my real estate business, and one hundred innocent people. They’ll kill us, too.”
Grayson frowned.
Keltie gripped his arm harder. “Please, Grayson. I’m begging you.”
“Let’s talk to the skipper and see what he thinks,” Grayson said.
Petty Officer Romeo Beauregard was a tall, tanned man in a green flight suit and a headset. He stood on the bridge, m
