Kira smiled and held up a finger asking for one moment.“Are you sure you can do this?”
“It would be easier if I had my old body.”Jin stabbed at the scroll’s screen.“But, yes, I think so.”
“‘Think’ isn’t good enough,” Raider bit out.“If you fail, they’ll arrest all of us.”
“Then I suggest you leave me alone to work.”
At Raider’s unhappy glance, Kira lifted one shoulder.“Wouldn’t be our first time in a brig.”
If they had to, they could just break themselves out.
It’d create an intergalactic incident and ensure them a place on both the Consortium and Tuann’s most wanted list, but that was a problem for future Kira.
“The things I do for this family,” Raider muttered.
“That’s the spirit,” Kira whispered as he and Finn took the lead, using their larger bodies to block the representative’s line of sight to Jin.
“How are you heir?”Bez demanded, falling into step beside her.“Your reckless disregard for consequences has to drive Harlow crazy.”
“I ask myself that same question every day.”
Maksym’s light snicker followed her as they slowly made their way down the gangway and past several empty dock slips.
Kira counted.
Other than her ship, there were only four docked vessels.
That was unusual.
The station might have been a cesspit, but it was a busy cesspit.Cargo came in and out of here constantly, making it one of the largest transport hubs in Consortium territory.It should never have been this empty.
“Shit,” Raider muttered a second later.
Kira followed his gaze to a pair of rough looking humans lurking on the gangway next to an airlock that they’d have to pass to reach customs.Outside, a vessel bearing Red Hand’s insignia on its hull floated.
Her gaze went back to the humans.
Lookouts.
Either clan based or belonging to one of the information guilds on the station.
“I’ll handle it,” Jin said, not looking up as he tapped away at his scroll.
Kira was instantly on guard.“What are you going to do?”
“Nothing that will cause structural damage to the station.After all, we still have to complete our business and we can’t do that if we’re floating in space.”
That was a surprisingly rational mindset for Jin.
So why was Kira so nervous?
She wasn’t the only one.Raider and Finn eyed Jin with distrust, their experience telling them all the ways this could backfire.
Dylan just seemed confused.Like he didn’t know why everyone was so worried.
He’d learn.
Oh, would he learn.
