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“All of …? ... Not… single one…? You sure, Zizu?”
“Yes, I don’t know how… happened, Solais!” The Mantianite shook her head, sending her bright pink tresses flying.
“How long… last dose?”
“Two hours. Garfis was just about to… when the container came flying… All vials broke.”
Hmm. By the sound of that and the worried glances both soldiers were giving the prisoner, they had been giving him some drug. And that would no longer be happening.
Now the neon-blue liquid staining the floor near the place where the containers had landed made sense.
What had the military unit been giving the prisoner? More importantly, what would happen when the next dose was not administered?
Solais chose that moment to come pester Miya. “Sugar, what’s taking so long? You’re supposed to be good with your hands.”
Miya ordered the bot to stop close enough to the stacked containers to serve as a step. “Rush me, and you just might follow your injured teammate’s fate. Tell your Commander I’m taking as much time as I need here. Not more, not less.”
She was just about to start climbing when the Cordalian came into her personal space, voice low. “We’ve got good reason to be in a hurry, sugar. A delay could be as dangerous as these loose containers proved to be.”
Miya looked up at his face. There was no sign of his usual smirk.
“Should I be worried about my safety?” she whispered, casting a look in the prisoner’s direction.
Surprise, surprise: his head was turned in their direction.
“No, no, sugar. As long as you stay close to me, I’ll keep you safe.” And just like that, the smirk was back. “Safe and perfectly satisfied thanks to my unparalleled skills, military and other–”
“If you truly want to live, pilot, get the ship moving immediately.”
The deep male voice made everyone look toward the cage.
Solais was not smirking anymore. In fact, he was vibrating with anger. “Anyone give you permission to speak,chihon?” he snarled, teeth bared the way the dog-like creature he was calling the prisoner did before attacking its prey.
Zizu lifted her blaster as if she was about to shoot the prisoner any second now.
Miya simply stared at the scene before her. The prisoner had barely said five words, and this reaction followed? He was literally plastered to the wall from head to toe and locked in a cage, what did they expect him to do?
Then again, what did a civilian like Miya know? If the overconfident soldiers acted like this around the mystery guy, they surely had a good reason.
“I need no permission to speak,” the prisoner told Solais in particular, given the direction his head was turned in. Then he added in a calm tone, “Don’t delay, pilot.”
Given the pleasant shiver that went through her body at the sound of that rumbling voice, Miya should definitely not delay. She had to be losing her mind to find a criminal’s voice sexy.
Time to get on the top container and finish with her work in the cargo hold.
“You what, assassin?” Solais kept going. “Think you stand a chance at freeing yourself and eliminating us all?”
Miya almost tripped in her climb. An assassin? Great. Who didn’t want to share a ship with an expert in offing people for space credits?
Once on the top of the stacked containers, she saw Solais had his teeth bared and blaster pointed at the prisoner, but he hadn’t taken a single step toward the cage. Was his tail swinging wildly in anger or in fear?
“Don’t get your hopes up,chihon,” Solais continued with a more arrogant tone. “We’ll get you so pumped with tranquilizers that you won’t feel the serum’s absence.”
Ah, so that was what the bluish drug had been for. Because of course all the cuffs and bars and guards and locked doors would not be enough to keep the assassin subdued.
Galaxies, what had Miya gotten herself into? That was what she got for agreeing to this job. For choosing the pilot jumpsuit over the bikini she had bought for the resort planet on which she was supposed to be holidaying right now.
“Are you sure regular tranquilizers will have any effect on me?” the prisoner asked.
