Krystal shards (AOI book 4)

on the ship

Krystal sat in the pilot seat. Slade sat in the copilot seat, although Krystal had no idea if he could fly, but he seemed to be knowledgeable about such things.
So she let him copilot, and she was thinking, man he looks hot when he's focussed. She shook the thought out of her head and put a stony face on a split second too late as Slade noticed her face was red.
He smirked but said nothing.
Suddenly a red light began blinking on the console.
"Missiles," said Krystal, "whoever that cat was working for isn't giving up."
"You go, I can fly the ship while you take out the missiles," said Slade.
She paused, unsure if she could trust him, but she took a quick look at his eyes, decided he was telling the truth, and nodded, running to man the guns.
She checked the scanner, and saw three missiles, along with a small but agile ship. She readied the gun, and began to take out the missiles. All the while Slade was swerving around to avoid them. She destroyed the third one and was about to destroy the ship when it made the jump to light speed and disapeared.
She sighed, laying back in the gunners chair, before getting up and running back into the cockpit,, where Slade gave her a bug hug, she returned it, the stiffened in his arms, what am I doing?
She pulled away and Slade looked at her, eyes soft, "what's wrong Krystal?"
"I thought I sensed..... Never mind. Let's get out of here."
"Wait," said Slade. He pulled her in and kissed her before she could think, she pulled away after she'd accidentally kissed back and slapped him.
"Who do you think you are?" She snapped.
"I thought......"
"What about your family huh? What would your wife say?" She grit her teeth to keep from growling.
"I- I lied. I don't have a family, I don't have any friends, and when I saw you blushing and when you hugged me I thought.... I thought this would be my only chance."
"Well you thought wrong."
She stomped back to the pilots seat in a huff. But a part of her was Happy, a part of her..........

Loved him.