Page 193 of Galaxy Circus Act One

“Who are the Syndicate?” Silac is asking all the right questions, but this time, she shakes her head.

“I don’t know, nobody does, and if anyone finds out, they are quickly dealt with.”

Silac folds his hood back and lowers his body before turning to us.

“Thank you.” Caspian slaps his friend on his shoulder. “I know you don’t like doing that.”

Silac shudders. “No, it makes me no better than her,” he spits out, but I disagree.

“Lila, what do you want to do?” my mate asks me, and when I turn away from the female, the three of them are looking at me, waiting for an answer.

Swallowing some bile, I turn to Tully. “Kill her,” I order, and in a flash, she pulls the trigger. The gun shoots light and puts a small, smoking hole in the middle of the female’s forehead, followed by one in the middle of the chest and two in the stomach. Her eyes glaze over, and she slumps, the life extinguished from her body.

“Thank you, Tully,” I say to the woman who lowers her gun and turns pleading eyes on me.

“I am so sorry, Lila. Please don’t fire us.”

“It’s fine, Tully. I’m not blaming you. There must be a better way of checking if people are who they say they are.”

“There is, except we’ve never needed it before, but things are changing.” Cas looks at me, and in his eyes, I see that he understands that this just became an even bigger problem.

“Why would they think the orb of power is here? It’s been missing since the end of the war.” Silac has a little frown on his face that makes him look all confused, and it’s cute as fuck, but Tirrian is studying me with eyes that I wouldn’t hesitate to guess miss very little. I wonder if he heard my heart rate jump. Fucking hell, I hope he’s not going to become a problem.

“No idea. I’m sure it’s just one of those silly rumors that pop up occasionally, kind of like myths and legends on Earth.” I brush it off, and it seems to satisfy Silac, but Tirrian doesn’t look as convinced.

“Well, that’s about as much excitement as I can take for one night. Can I leave you to clean up this mess and see that Gilani is taken to Link? I know he’s down in the clinic now,” I ask the girl, and she quickly agrees.

“Yes, of course. Sully and I will take care of it, and again, we’re sorry.” She bows her head and hurries away, I assume to check on the demonic male and her sister.

I look at the dead female once more and shudder before turning my back. “Well, I wish I could say this has been fun and a beautiful bonding experience, but it really hasn’t. Maybe next time you could avoid taking my husband to the death dealing strippers.” I raise an eyebrow at the other two, and they exchange a glance.

“Sorry, Lila,” Silac mumbles, but Tirrian just scowls at me.

“Right, good chat. See you later, I guess.” I grab my husband’s hand and drag him out of the strip club.

“Lila,” he starts as we make our way to the elevator.

I hold up my hand. “Not until we get home and I can get Xavier to put up a barrier,” I plead, and he stops.

“No, I just wanted to apologize for going to the strip club. It wasn’t planned, it’s just where they were when I went looking for them.” I wave him off and press the button to call the elevator car.

“I don’t care about the strip club. I trust you. Hang out with your friends wherever. I’m just shaken by the whole Madova thing. I guess all of the races I’ve met so far have been mostly peaceful. Seeing her and hearing about their race reminds me that I have so much more to learn, and things aren’t always black and white or safe. I’m going to ask Saxon to work on my new powers tomorrow.”

“That’s smart. I forget that you are so new to all of this. Iceen is still a good day and a half away. We will probably arrive late tomorrow night and stay in orbit until the morning. Iceen is tooinhospitable during the night to risk being caught outside. They don’t allow people to transport directly into the dwellings. There is a landing pad, and we will use a shuttle to get down there, but that is also weather dependent.”

“Okay, good then. We need to tell my grandpas what happened too, but I really don’t want to worry them even further,” I say as we step in, and it takes us to our floor.

“Let’s not for now. Link can check over Gilani, and in the morning after your training with Saxon, we can tell them. Let them have a good night’s sleep. God knows they are worried enough about John without adding to it.”

He wraps a tentacle around my waist and drapes an arm over my shoulder as we walk to our room. I rest my head on his shoulder and sigh. “There’s never going to be a dull moment here, is there?”

He shakes his head and presses a kiss to my temple. “Not since you arrived, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Lila

The next day, Saxon brings me down into the circus pod soon after breakfast so we can work on my new Vilaxian strength.

When we arrive, Xenos is there, as are Hale, Velorina, and two unfamiliar Vilaxians. The nasty bitches are nowhere to be seen.