And by the time they search this location, the kidnappers will have absconded with their captive.
Sighing, she looked again, this time her mind supplying her with ways to kill all three.
She bit back a sob. What have I become? she wondered, realizing that somehow, her life was no longer her own, that something had happened to place her at the mercy of forces beyond her reckoning.
Forces she was ready to confront with lethal means.
But that was the reason she'd boarded the starliner—to reassert some kind of control over her life. And then I contemplate murder.
With a sigh, she loosened the grate and set it across from her. Her drop to the floor was soundless.
A laser barrel was pointed at her face. One eye behind it was wide with surprise. “Princess,” the man said in distinct Japanese
