“As you like,” he said and continued. This time, however, his pace had slowed.
Freya walked fast, jogging occasionally, but she attempted to keep up with him. Running through the tunnels was probably better than sitting there kissing, anyway.
Because she’d really liked the kissing.
It had been a while since someone had kissed her—and like that? Well, she couldn’t remember ever being kissed like that.
Was it because of Kian’s size? He was much larger than any man she’d ever known. As she was on the short side, that didn’t say much, but he still seemed to be huge.
Long and lean.
Yet muscular.
It was a conundrum she hadn’t been able to solve while he’d rested. Slept. Passed out, whatever that was. The sleep state he’d been in, where he’d made weird clicking noises every so often.
At first, she’d thought it was his gauntlets on his arms, shifting and hitting the hard floor, but no, it was him.
Clicking.
Now, faintly, she thought she heard the same sound in his movements as they ran through this underground.
“Do you know where we’re going?” she asked.
“We are close to another exit.”
“And what will be there?”
“A ship we can use.”
"For finding the others?"
"For getting you to Sol-3, where the others should be rendezvousing with their members of your party."
"Five of you for the five of us," Freya murmured. "Convenient."
"Fortuitous, I would think."
"Why?"
"Because your pods traveled in different directions. Tracking each one would have been a challenge had we used a smaller escort squad."
"Because of the explosion?"
"Because of the attack. The Terrans immediately attacked us as the explosion happened."
"They thought you blew up their Ambassadors." Which was Freya's thoughts at the time. They were at war, after all.
"We did not blow up your ship."
"Someone blew it up."
"Yes, someone did. Who that was is the mystery."
He wasn't wrong. If it wasn’t the Rhimodians who attacked the Terran ship, it was the Terrans themselves who'd done it.
Or the Charro who was working for someone else—and that was more likely than anything, the Terrans.
Either way, it added up to the same information. The Terrans were likely the ones who attacked.
