You don’t return to this bridge.” She advanced on him and used her momentum to give him a rough shove to get his mass moving towards the door. “So what’ve you been up to?”
“Trying to trick the predictive maintenance algorithms to detect problems that don’t exist.”
“What?” Cait asked incredulously. Cartoon porn Dad said their cargo was classified. We keep going and hope we make it, like always. They’d be old, but they’d at least give us an idea if they were in trouble.”
“You get so into the mindset that your comms are useless that you don’t even think about transmitting a distress signal to anyone who might hear it and at least report that you’re dead.”
“Christ, that’s morbid.”
“That’s the dead zone.” Rhys shrugged. Logical but passionate. And here’s your grand prize for seeing past all my flaws.” Cait doubled over, hooking her thumbs into her shorts and pushing them down, kicking them off and gripping the edge of the console with her ass perched on the edge and spreading her thighs to display herself to Rhys.
