Chapter 13: Regeneration chamber

"Until we know each other really well." Hopefully, she'd find their weaknesses or inject him with the picos and be long gone before she had to sink low enough to sleep with him and then betray him. She shied away from the image in her head of him reset to mindlessness.

"I need a specific date and time."

Not as gullible as I'd hoped he'd be. "I can't give you that. I'm not even comfortable here yet." At least he was talking to her and not forcing himself on her. Maybe she'd get off this ship unscathed, after all.

"What do you need to be comfortable here?"

She gestured around her. "Just look at this place. It looks like a jail cell. No woman is going to be happy in here."

Actually, it looked like the veined insides of a lung to her, but she wanted to make a point. She was so tired, if he'd just leave her alone, she'd drop to the floor and sleep like the dead, even with the floor groping her.