14 Permission to Go Forward
“I need to tell you two things,” TG’s voice came over the speaker in Alex’s darkened room.
“What?” Alex said, sleep weighing down his limbs.
It had been a long day of deliveries. Knox was waiting for Ophelia’s blessing on his plan. Of course if she didn’t agree, he’d probably push forward with it anyway, but Knox still waited out of courtesy.
So they delivered shipments and picked up others, as if life was perfectly normal. And Alex was sore.
“Nicolai called Knox while you were getting ready for bed,” TG said. “Knox locked himself in the cockpit, but I got the recording.”
“What did they talk about?” Alex stretched to wake up. Why did she have to talk right as he’d started to drift off? Nicolai called Knox about a lot of stuff.
The tiny projector in the
