“Are you serious with this?”
“You said you needed to produce results.I can’t think of anything better than rolling up the entire operation of a dangerous pirate clan, can you?”
Silence echoed.
Kira smiled.“Do me a favor and give us two hours to get into position before you hit the strongholds on station.”
“I can do that,” Jace said, still reeling from the information Kira had dropped in his lap.“Don’t think this is enough to get you off the hook for what happened on the docks.”
“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Kira lied.
“I have you on camera.”
“Are you sure?Could have been some other redhead.”
The sound of boots had Kira looking up to find security flooding down the gangway in their direction.
Maksym went still, his gaze trained on the group
“Are you listening to me?”Jace asked.
“Not really,” Kira answered, picking up on Maksym’s tension.She touched his arm.“Come on.We should go.The others are waiting.”
He patted her hand distractedly, his attention still on the group of humans.“You go.There’s something I have to take care of first.Don’t worry.I’ll catch up when I can.”
“Kira,” Graydon called from the threshold of his ship.
“Let’s just go,” Kira urged Maksym.
They’d already won.A few seconds and they could be on the other side of the docking tube, hatch closed and pushing away from the station.
“What’s going on?”Jace asked.
“Your security is being a pain in the ass,” Kira answered as Maksym took her arm and guided her into the tube.
She went willingly.
“What security?Where are you?”
“The passenger docks.”
“I don’t have security down there,” Jace said.
A second later the chilling call of an apex predator brought everything to a halt.
Kira’s breath shortened as her insides froze.
Primus.
“Jace, seal off the passenger docks.There’s a primus on Titan.”Kira whirled to find Maksym no longer beside her and the hatch on his side closing.
“A primus?What?”
“You heard me.It’s a fucking primus,” Kira screamed.“Protocol Phoenix.”
Raider rushed to her side, shoving his shoulder against the hatch and pushing.His face turned red, the tendons of his neck straining before he gave up.“It won’t budge.”
Kira pounded on the hatch.“Maksym, don’t do this!”
