Final Protocol (10 page)

Epilogue

“How do you feel?”

I glanced at the man standing at my shoulder and then slowly shifted my attention to the busy holding bay.

Our speeder was getting readied.

Nobody knew it, but once we departed, we’d dump the speeder, the supplies…everything.

Orion and I, we had a mission.

Gold was going to die for what he’d done. But we couldn’t come at him in a public fashion and he’d never stop hunting for us.

It was time for the final protocol.

Or at least it would be made out to look like that. My speeder was going to jettison itself into the sun, even as the comm on my bracer sent out a relay, broadcasting an alert to the various sec organizations in this system and every other one I had been able access. It held incriminating evidence on Gold, his enterprises, his men, his holdings, and detailed lists of the men and women he’d either killed or had killed in the years since he’d forced me to become his weapon.

I was still a weapon, and now that I was free of him, I was going to point myself in his direction.

Feeling Orion’s eyes on me, I reached up and prodded the tender skin at the base of my head.

“Don’t,” he chided gently, taking my hand down. “It needs to heal.”

I smiled at him. “I feel…free.”

He caught me up against him.

I wrapped my arms around him and tapped the bracer on my wrist. “It’s time to initiate the final protocol—but skip step one and go straight to two.”

There was a hum and then the system said,
“This will send out an alert on the individual known as Gold. If you do not self-terminate, there is a high probability of him sending men after you. Please advise.”

“Send it out. I’ve got another plan in mind besides self-termination now.”

Then I tipped my head back and met Orion’s eyes. “I’ve had an escape route for more than seven years. But I could never let myself take it. Now I know why.”

His only response was to press his mouth to mine.

It was enough.

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Final Protocol

Copyright © 2015 by J. C. Daniels

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