Harper nodded in agreement.
“I appreciate that.”
If they were already embedded into the criminal element of the station, they would have a better sense of the movers and shakers.It would at least give Kira a place to start.
Bonus—no one would object too strenuously if she were to take it upon herself to deal with the humans responsible.
Jace might even give her a commendation.
Twenty Four
Kira
Chancepushedoffthedresser.“Call if you need us.”
“I will,” Kira promised.
Harper danced over to his side, winking at Graydon and Kira before disappearing back into the hidden passage.
With one last nod at Kira, Chance followed.
“Interesting encounter,” Graydon drawled as the passageway closed behind them.
“You said you wanted access to my secrets.”
This was her letting him in.Giving him a window into her private business that not many were privileged enough to ever see.
He had to know how difficult that was for her.Her first, second, and last instinct was to hold back.To conceal and hide anything important.
She was trying to change that.
For him.
And if anything ever happened to her, and Chance and Harper came looking for answers, he would know what they meant to her and act accordingly.
“They worship you.”
“They respect me because of what I did for them,” Kira corrected.The same way she’d once respected Himoto.“Selene is the one they worship.”
She’d raised them.Tended their wounds when they were hurt and held them through their nightmares.
All Kira did was give them a chance.
“I don’t think that’s entirely it,coli.”
Kira’s face was filled with confusion as Graydon rolled off the bed.Her head tilted back to keep her eyes on his face as he prowled close, crowding her personal space.He touched the spot under one eye, right over where her primus’s runes would be when ascendant.“They’ve modeled themselves after you.Continuing the cause you started.”
Kira wrapped her fingers around his wrist.“It’s normal for them to want to make a difference.”
That same impulse was what had driven her.
“They infiltrated your human rear admiral’s ranks, didn’t they?”At Kira’s stubborn silence, Graydon’s lips turned up in a half smile.“They have a touch of recklessness.Just like you.”
“What’s your point?”
“No point.Just observations.”
Kira narrowed her eyes.
