Cody swallowed hard. “No, not at all. I would never.”
“Just f*****g with you,” Sam said again, a hint of laughter buried under the worry in her voice. “But I wish these snakes would stop f*****g with me.”
“How many left?”
“Five.”
Cody’s mind switched into computer mode. He viewed their section of space like a computer model. He was in a tower defense video game. The enemy kept coming at him. He had only so much to work with, and a hostile environment in which to do it. The data churned inside his head, swirling into one slop of information, and spit out an idea.
Turn the hostile environment into an advantage.
Cody’s mind went blank. He let his instincts take over. He pulled up on the controls, bringing the ship back into the asteroid field he’d just dived under.
“Seems like you’re t
