Chapter Twenty-Three
Skeeter had been nervous about returning to the Lulu Belle, but Krac made sure she was kept too busy over the next several days to let the memories of what happened overwhelm her. When they weren’t making love, he was asking her a million and one questions about her life. Where she had grown up, what she liked to do, and why was the freighter filled with so many strange objects. She had happily answered his questions, but it troubled her that every time she asked some of the same questions about him, he would change the subject or distract her.
During that time, he also showed her the updated equipment that had been installed by the engineering crew aboard the Conqueror. She listened as he gave her a detailed tour of the new security and defense systems that were ins
