C: Disappointment

Rafaela glanced at Brendan, wondering if he could argue the conspiracy her father had implied, but he hesitated as though considering it seriously. She knew that he had examined much of her family history back when he had been investigating the freighter's disappearance.

After a moment Corso said bitterly, "I had no proof to offer Eks Corp Security back then, but do you really think that it could be coincidence that pirates would take out a station where a Corporate Head and most of his immediate family had gathered, just as that temporary alliance finally organized the take over?" 

"What did you expect Eks Corp to do about it?" Brendan asked a bit helplessly.

"Refuse the transfers! Or trace the transactions that had to have linked them to those so called pirates?" Corso suggested with an anger that was so old it had grown cold and bitter. "It doesn't matter anymore."

"Then why are you mad at me?" Rafaela asked a little plaintively.