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She went on and on, but my attention was once again taken by the beautiful star at my side I would never get tired of looking at.
“Damn, that’s hot,” the Killian said to Bling when she finished.
She giggled.
Nera’s eyebrows drew together in confusion. “Umm, I think I’m going to have to see it in slow-mo to understand it during a time when we’re not all about to die.”
“Movie night!” Bling bounced up and down in her seat, making her ample chest bounce too, which definitely caught the Killian’s attention. “I can show youDie Hard With a Vengeanceso you can see how they did it. We can pop some popcorn and open a couple bottles of champagne to celebrate not dying.”
Nera nodded. “Love. We could do it at the honeymoon bungalow so I can check on my favorite caterpillar.”
“Let’s do it,” I agreed. “I’ve never seen that movie.”
“Me neither.” With considerable effort, the Killian dragged his eyes off Bling’s chest, looking half drugged from the three-breasted trance he was just in. “I’m in.”
“Good,” she breathed. “It’s a date. It’s a double date.”
Smiling widely, Nera looked off in the distance toward the cliffside with the pulsing beacon on top of it. I knew her well enough to know exactly what she was thinking.
But first? Sweet, sweet revenge.
We were close enough to shore now, so the Killian and I hopped out and hauled the boat in. No sign of Pete, but there stood Judge in the middle of the crowd, looking smug and victorious and very, very punchable.
“Your weapons are on the table,” someone called to us.
Sure enough, a few feet up from the shoreline, a table covered from end to end in gleaming weapons beckoned us closer.
“Those areallours?” the Killian asked, sounding as bewildered as I was.
“Some are the second group’s too,” a crewmember told us. “They’re still not back yet.”
“It’s almost as if everyone knows how dangerous this planet is,” Nera deadpanned.
As soon as we helped our ladies from the boat, they made a beeline for the weapon table. The Killian and I skipped the weapons for now and strode toward Judge without a word.
He saw us coming.
The crowd instantly guessed our target and parted around him as though he’d just caught an infectious disease.
Nervous laughter tripped out of his mouth. “So glad you made it, guys. Um, I can explain. There’s a reason I took the money. You see, my grandMOTHER—”
The Killian was flanking to one side, and I took the other, both of us hauling the little fuxxer between us from under his armpits.
“Can’t we talk about this?” he shouted. “I’ll give you the credits if you just let me go. All of it, I swear.”
He kicked his twerpy legs out at us as we carried him out to sea. Where were we going? Who the hell knows? But wronging us, slowing our escape, sure steered me in directions I never thought I’d go. With others I never thought I’d gowith.
I shot a glance at the Killian. He seemed to be enjoying himself too.
“Please, I’ll do anything,” Judge begged. “You can haveallmy money. Every cent of it.”
“This isn’t about money, you arrogant dick clown,” I growled. “It’s about your lack of honor. It’s about screwing us over without a second thought to our safety or any consequences.”
The Killian nodded. “Basically, you suck.”
“Okay. All Right. I suck.” He stopped squirming and peered up at us with his enormous black eyes. “Can you let me go now?”
The Killian cocked his eyebrows at me over the little Akark’s squirming head. I shrugged, and we tossed him into the ocean a few feet in front of us.
