“Your nose is bleeding,” she said churlishly. Though she felt no satisfaction for having caused it.
“Don’t speak.” He quickly closed the canopy, then went through his preflight checks.
“E.A. Fury requesting clearance.”
He waited for them to clear him before he fired his engines. In spite of the urge to crash them, Jayne refrained. It would be pointless to kill them both.
But if he didn’t explain himself soon, she would reevaluate her desire to live.
The launch threw her back into his chest.
She was desperate for answers.
Damn him.
Once they cleared orbit and were in space, he flipped a switch in front of her.
“Now you can speak and they can’t hear us.”
Well, that explained his silence.
Sort of.
“Why am I being transferred?”
“Because I assumed you didn’t want to serve the rest of your sentence in that hell hole.”
“Pardon?”
He didn’t say a word as he programmed in the coordinates for her sister’s home planet.
Stunned, Jayne stared in total disbelief. “You’re taking me to the Trigange Outpost?”
“Unless there’s someplace else you’d rather go.”
Jayne tried to turn around and see him, but there wasn’t enough room to even look over her shoulder. “You’re letting me go?”
“The proper term is I just broke you out of maximum security. So, you might want to stay low for a long, long time. Change your name . . . definitely find a new career.”
“I don’t understand.”
Jinx let out a bitter laugh. Neither did he.
Not really. This was all kinds of suicidal. But what the fuck?
He was already dead.
“I’m paying forward a favor.”
“Eve?” she asked.
“Yeah.” And what pained him most was how much Jayne favored her sister. The only real difference was that her skin was lighter. Her eyes darker.
But there was no mistaking their relationship. Eve must have been an almost dead ringer for her at that age.
How he wished he could have met Eve then. Before life had turned her into the same brutal killer that he was.
Not wanting to think about that, he leaned back and closed his eyes. In his mind, he conjured the look on Eve’s face when she saw her sister again.
