Instantly, the door swung open. A pair of small hands reached under his arms and pulled him up. He stumbled to his feet and half-fell inside. A dim green overhead light protected by a wire cage revealed the person who’d been waiting for him.
Reva.
He had only a momentary glimpse of her dark, round eyes before the door clicked shut and the light switched off. Immediately, her body was pressed against his, her arms pulling him tight in a desperate embrace. She pulled his head down and kissed him with all the passion of someone who expected to die.
“Reva—”
A wave of dizziness swept over him as he melted into her embrace. She took a quick breath and went in for another kiss, preventing him from speaking. He could feel the contours of her body against his, her full, round breasts pressing up against his chest. After slaving away for so long under such miserable conditions, it gave him a heady rush that almost made him swoon.
Careful, he thought inwardly. Control yourself.
But the longer they embraced, the harder it was to exercise self-restraint. A hunger deep within him stirred, and a host of unmet needs rose quickly to—
“Are they gone?”
Isaac took a deep breath and pressed his mouth against the smooth, warm skin of her neck. She aroused him more than he thought possible, but using all the self-control he had left, he stopped and pulled away from her.
“Yes.”
“We are alone?”
“I think so.”
Reva released him and leaned back against the equipment lockers, though in the narrow confines of the maintenance closet she was still close enough to touch.
“Today a man died,” Reva began in her sensuous foreign accent. In the last two months of their captivity, she had become surprisingly proficient at Gaian, picking up the language with relative ease. It was clear that the pirates regarded her much more highly than they did him.
“How?” he asked.
“By airlock,” she answered, clearly shaken by what she’d seen. “Gulchina spaced him in front of everyone. It was terrible.”
He put a hand on her shoulder to comfort her. Though he yearned for more physical contact than that, he was careful to keep it contained.
“I’m sorry,” he said. “I—”
“How soon we can escape?”
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Captives in Obscurity
There is no escape beyond Star's End.
Isaac and Reva are running out of time. Gulchina's cruelty knows no bounds, and on the edge of known space, no one can stop her. But an unexplored planet holds an ancient alien secret that may prove to be a game changer.
There is no escape beyond Star’s End.
The deadliest pirates in the galaxy have stolen the technology that will transform it. Now, on the edge of known space, they are poised to start an empire of their own.
Isaac and Reva are running out of time. Neither of them knows the extent of Gulchina’s plans, or whether the madwoman will keep them both alive after she achieves them.
But an unexplored planet beyond the Far Outworlds holds an ancient alien secret that not even Gulchina has uncovered. That secret will tip the balance in
SONS OF THE STARFARERS
BOOK V: CAPTIVES IN OBSCURITY
