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“She’s not,” Christoffsen assured him, looking far too amused. “She’s just pointing out that it’s clearly your duty to throw yourself on that unexploded redhead for Mage-King and Protectorate.”
This line is perfect.
She was short, but he was even shorter. He found himself leaning his head upwards and both of them started to move towards each other…
This whole sequence is cliche and forced.
Damn it, Damien—you’re a weaker Mage than me. How?”
If he, a Hand, answers this question then I will call bullshit. He is investigating a shadow war, he is not trying to date his ex and he SHOULD kbow the difference!
He kissed her before she could. For a moment, they hung in space and clung to each other, shocked just to have survived.
He is a fool to do this in the middle of an investigation.
“Good,” she said gently. “But realize, Captain, that this is the final warning I can offer. Those complaints will go in your record, and if you try to presume on our friendship or allow yourself to be emotionally compromised by your ‘feelings’, you will be riding a desk so fast you’ll be looking for the plate of the freight truck that ran you over. “You follow me, Captain?” “Yes, ma’am.”
Why do supposedly smart people let others actions slide until even more damage is done? This will come back to bite her in the ass.
That he would also likely destroy any chance of rekindling his relationship with Grace was such a tiny thing to stack up against that goal.
So small it should not even be brought up. That it was is insulting to the character.
“But if Montgomery fails, we will need to act to protect our people, and I’d rather you had to do that with nine frigates than with seven.”
Not counting their rogue element? Who knows what the number is.
“It’s a Code Omega, sir,” Jakab finished, his voice shaky. “The Dreams of Liberty has been destroyed.”
Of course it has. Seems the Martian Navy is only worth a damn if it has overwhelming numbers.
“Alan-a-dale at full readiness,” Michael Wayne responded instantly. Despite her occasional twinges of discomfort with the man, he remained her most efficient and effective captain.
This right here has me feeling that she does not deserve her rank. To be this wrong about someone and let all this happen under her nose.
“I have no intention of going in blind or oblivious,
Ironic, that is exactly what she is.
Tell Phan that by God and by the honor of Sherwood and the Patrol,
That is an empty promise. Part of the Patrol has no honor, the other part has no clue.
and Damien realized he should never have let her get so close. On some level, neither he nor Grace hadn’t truly believed that Wayne was a threat.
This proves how foolish he still is. After this much time it is no longer allowable to be this stupid.
She’d now worked for two, and Hands still terrified her.
Bullshit.
He did, after all, know what orders Grace had gone to Antonius with.
That WAS her decision.
“I’m still impressed,” he told her. “Your grandfather didn’t just pick you for the role for family ties. You’re doing a good job.”
No, she really isn't.
