Sunday Snippet: Sabotage

As usual, we'rehaving bizarre weather. Got hot again then a stormfront moved through and nowwe're back down to the sixties. I'm not complaining about the cooler temperaturesor anything, but I'd rather stick with one range for longer than a week.

Still loaded upwith work projects and I'm making solid progress on all of them. Sometimes it'slike spinning plates and trying to keep them all going at the same rate, but Ilove the variety of the stuff I'm working on right now.

Not a bad week forviewing television. I did the taking a break from wall-to-wall words thingagain and got pretty much a full round of shows in this week.

Started off with Bestin Paradise and enjoyed the rewatch of "Dark Memories." I haveone more episode left for this series then I'll be switching over to BeyondParadise. I'm looking forward to starting that one.

Caught anotherepisode of Death in Paradise with the ninth season premiere. I thinkthis is Jack's last season and the new guy takes over for the next one. Enjoyedthe episode a lot.

Watched anotherepisode of Elementary and enjoyed it. Not a huge Moriarity fan, but Ilike the layers and back and forth between Holmes and Watson with Moriarity.

Finished up the thirdseason of The Batman and I'm getting ready to start the fourth. Ihonestly can't remember if I ended up liking the fourth season or not.

Also caught anepisode of Classic Rugrats and the three vignettes were ones I don'tremember seeing before so nice to have something new to me.

That's pretty much itfor the life update this week. Tonight's post is from Sabotage, anovella that sets a couple up for a bit of a twisty mystery to solve … in space.

Here's the miniblurb:

Pilots Sapphire Naught and Gifford Fell are tasked withfinding a saboteur and neither is allowed to fly until the culprit isapprehended. The cat and mouse game of tracking and luring their prey into atrap takes its toll on their relationship but ends up making them see new sidesto each other.

And a sneaky peek…

Giff signaled thebartender. "Another round here." He motioned to the empty glasses onthe table.The drinks helped pullSapphire out of her mood. At least the thundercloud disappeared from over herhead. Deep into a game of darts, she laughed when her opponent missed thetarget by a mile.Neal Blanchard, afellow pilot dropped down beside Giff. "Good to see her having fun."He nodded toward Sapphire.Giff studied Neal amoment. The other man flew well, but didn't really gel with either squadron.Something about the guy always seemed a little off. And his comment aboutSapphire puzzled Giff.He leaned back in hisseat and quirked an eyebrow. "Yeah? Why's that?"Neal shrugged."When you guys came in, she looked pissed, like she wanted to tear someonea new one."Giff couldn't disagree,but Neal's statement rubbed Giff the wrong way. "Look, she had a closecall today and anyone would be angry when someone they trust fucks up."Especially when the error didn't make sense.Neal's eyes widened."What happened?"Giff gave him thebare-bones version. He didn't intend to spread rumor and innuendo. Not whenanyone could make a mistake.Neal let out a lowwhistle. "And top-ranked Sapphire missed it on the preflight check?"He stopped just short of referring to her as the golden girl.Giff had no intentionof playing Neal's game tonight. "Uh, no. She didn't miss anything.Preflight was down to Warrenty, who apparently fubared it up." Damn, heshouldn't have let Blanchard push buttons.Neal became agitated."What do mean? Warrenty never screws up."Giff archedhis brows. "You got a thing for the deckhand?" Neal would be in Unrequitedville… Monica had a steady thing with one of the engineers.Neal shut his trap."What? No, not at all." He backpedaled. "She's good, probablythe best on the chief's deck." He snagged a napkin and crumpled it.Giff agreed."Yeah, but she's also human and can make a mistake."Neal frowned."Doesn't seem like her though." His gaze followed Sapphire when shewent to retrieve her winning darts. "Nothing gets in her way, doesit?" Crumpling turned to shredding.Giff blinked."Who? Saph?" He shrugged. "Nah, what she can't plow through, shebounces back from." One of the many things he loved about her.Neal studied her alittle longer then abruptly stood. "Guess that's why she stays at thetop." An odd glare lit his eyes. "Have a nice night, Fell."He dropped the torn napkin on the table then turned to leave.Giff lifted his chin upthen tilted his head to the side, watching Neal elbow his way out of the bar."He's a strange one."

Having a lot of funwith this one. Giff and Sapphire are a cool couple to write.

 

That's it for thisweek. Catch everyone on the flipside.

 

ML Skye