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Blue Burn #5 Starship for Sale,
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“He’s not the Emperor yet,” I replied, as if there was anything else I could do to stop him.
“No?” Blorb replied, morphing into a regal looking woman in a white gown. I recognized her immediately. The Empress Li’an.
Glancing down at my phone, I saw my crew floating behind Admiral Lyke, held in place by the sigils etched into her body. Keep among them. They vanished up the ramp into her ship.
“Poor Ben. All of your effort to stop us from ruling the Hegemony. And little did you know, you’re already too late. Enjoy what’s left of your life. I know I will.” He grabbed David’s arm again, dragging him out of the lab.
Leaving me there alone.
“Nooooo!” I shouted as loud as I could, forcing myself out of the chair. My legs refused to support me, and I fell forward onto my hands and knees. I didn’t give up. I couldn’t. I was on the verge of losing everything, and I wasn’t ready to let it end like this.
We were so damn close.
I didn’t move quickly, dragging along the deck, heart pounding so hard I could barely breathe. Every cough brought up blood, and I started seeing double, then triple, then too many copies of the room in front of me—along with Gia’s ravaged body—to count.
I stopped fighting then, dropping onto my stomach and sobbing openly and loudly, not that anyone was around to hear it. Who was I kidding? We had never been close. Sedaya had been one step ahead of us from the beginning. All the way back to Gia’s parents, murdered by a second Aleal. Alter was gone. Keep was gone. Matt was gone, along with Shaq and the others.
More importantly to the Hegemony and Earth, he had David, and with him access to new and terrifying sigils that, along with Dominator, would make him truly unstoppable.
It was over. We'd lost. The best I could hope for now was that I would die straight away, so that I wouldn’t have time to drown in the truth of the pain to come for the people I loved the most. I closed my eyes.
If there was any mercy left in the universe I would never have to open them again.
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Table of Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
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