Renégats - Volume 1 : A Fallen Angel

Volume 1 : A Fallen Angel - Chapter 6

Chapter 6

"It had been quite a while since I'd had such a lovely evening."

Stein gently kissed Emeryka's bare shoulder.

"You should come to Gorgona more often."

She rolled towards him, lifted her head up the cushion and gave him a kiss, before moving back with a grin.

He sadly smiled back.

"I don't belong here."

"Oh, right. I forgot. Such a cold-hearted adventurer."

She rose, as the sheets fell on her thighs, and affected a deep voice.

"I'm Captain Stein. I belong amongst the stars, a different woman in every spatioport."

He gave her a severe look.

But he couldn't keep up his poker face for very long, and burst laughing with her, before jumping to kiss her once more.

"You've got me figured out so perfectly."

"All men are easy to figure out."

Her hand ventured towards his groin.

At that moment, the Captain's communicator rang loudly, lost in a pile of clothes on the floor.

"Won't you answer?"

"Don't want to. They'll leave a message."

The communicator rang kept ringing. Stein sighed.

"It'll only take a few seconds," he said, leaving the bed.

"Don't sell yourself short. I know you can do at least a minute."

Stein threw a shirt in her face, laughing.

His good mood was not going to last

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"Ya want an hypercig, Miss Yulee?"

"You do know they're just normal cigarettes? They put 'hyper' on the packaging to sell them for more."

Tofer didn't answer that, abashed.

"But I'll have one," she conceded.

His face brightened, as he took a tiny neon blue cylinder out of its shiny packaging.

As Yulee was lighting up her hypecig and Gandar was pouring some hyperjoe, a gloomy Nyx entered the kitchen.

"So?"

"He didn't shout."

His three comrades gave him a skeptical look.

"He just said 'I'm on my way' and hung up."

"Oh, that's bad..." Tofer sighed.

Nyx sat at the table and grabbed the cup of hyperjoe that Gandar had just served. He took it to his lips and burned the tip of his tongue.