Excerpt from Intergalactic Witness Protection

My captain finally comes back to a part of himself and pulls roughly away from the gentleman and steps back, narrowing his eyes at him and then glancing between him and Wayta like both might attack him at any moment. “Who are you?”

The Venetian takes in the stranger wearing the garb of Orion’s father’s men and smiles, ducking her head to one side, so that her hair falls over where her sleeve has slipped dramatically off her shoulder. “Well, thank you for making this patient’s day, captain.”

I’m not sure which is worse- her walking away from what should be her execution just like that, or the fact that she’s verbally throwing Orion under the bus as she does so.

Then, with another flip of her hair, the seducer walks barefoot out of the room, not even trying to cinch together the deep rip in her dress.

I glance at Orion and decide that that last act was the worst of all. How much longer must she tempt him and then taunt him like this?

Then the stranger clears his throat loudly once again.

Orion snaps his gaze from Wayta’s retreating figure and back to the stranger. “Um, who are you again?”

The man sighs and steps back. “I’m Reverend Shipping. And I believe you are the captain of the ship I S.O.S.ed.” He twists his mouth as he sizes up my captain like he hopes desperately that he’ll prove him wrong and there’s another captain somewhere not to be caught making out during a rescue mission.

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