Lib Novel Page 143
Nia huffed out a soft laugh. “You’re telling me you do this sort of thing on the regular. Do you have a death wish?”
“Maybe.”
Nia sobered a little.
He was fighting demons and she could feel her heart reaching out to him.
Releasing his restraints, he lifted the thing in his hand. “Just this thing alone holds enough metal to buy half of the Exchange. Did you know that?”
Nia’s brows shot up at that and her gaze fell back on the device.
It was no bigger than a bottle of Coke.
“Really?”
Ka’Cit nodded.
“Funny how money is, even on this side of the universe. Even here the wealth isn’t distributed evenly. If I had some of that I’d have paid for my own legal status a long time ago and then none of this would have happened.”
Ka’Cit’s gaze darted to hers suddenly and he grabbed her wrist, spun it over, and froze.
“Of course…” he said after a while. “I’m such a fool.”
Nia squirmed a little on her feet.
Again, she was vulnerable before him.
She wasn’t legal and that meant she had no right.
It was hard to determine what he thought about that, but when his gaze met hers again, he said nothing more.
Silence would have enveloped them if not for the band on his wrist beeping.
Ka’Cit activated the device and without greeting the person on the other end of the line, he got straight to the point.
“I got it,” he said.
There was a pause. “Good. I’m sending you the coordinates. Meet me there.”
The comm clicked off and Ka’Cit’s gaze returned to her.
“I should take you home…”
Nia shook her head. “No, we should finish this.”
Ka’Cit studied her for a moment before jerking his head in a nod.
He punched something into the controls and the ship began changing directions just as Nia took a seat once more.
When she glanced back at him, his eyes were on her again.
She was used to his stares by now, but this time, it wasn’t his usual look of interest.
There were things that passed through his eyes while he was looking at her, things that were quickly masked.
Happiness…hope… resolution…fear.
The last one puzzled her.