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We stepped apart and heat flushed my cheeks. I didn’t dare look Raf in the eye. Here I was, kissing his friend on the bridge of an Athion ship. If I thought about like that, it seemed kind of wrong.
“Couldn’t you have knocked?” Vuk growled.
“And miss the sight of you snogging Wren? No way.” He grinned at me. “You’re beautiful when you blush.”
My cheeks got even hotter. He’d called me beautiful. Had anyone ever done that before? I had a hard time thinking of that ever happening. Maybe a teenage boyfriend before the invasion, but that had never been anything serious. We’d never progressed past some shaky fumbling, which had left me more disappointed than anything else.
Vuk cleared his throat. “Do you have all the transmission data?”
Raf nodded and pointed at his communicator. “All t
