Page 85 of Seeded By Two

I was glad my fated mates had come for me and considered me important enough to track down and convince me to give them a second chance.

In my mind, I was unsure of what the truth really was.

If I only knew the truth, knew I could trust them, I never would have left in the first place.

Their story about being a Prince and his decoy was a highly unlikely one…

But knowing them as I did — admittedly, as little as I did — made the spy story seem more likely to be true.

All of the evidence lined up, but I still could not fully bring myself to believe it.

I had agreed to plant the tracking devices on them but had not gone through with it.

I had listened to some deep internal instinct that told me not to betray them, that there was much more going on here than I realized.

I listened to that voice and now knew it to be the right decision.

After all, there was no reason real spies would want to convince me to join them.

What would they have to gain?

Then we were attacked.

I watched as Aslas rolled and shot a creature that slumped to the floor.

Then the Prince peered around the corner and then saw something that made him sit up and the blood drain from his face.

I wondered what it could be.

The fighting spirit inside him seemed to fade before my very eyes and a new resolution took hold of him.

He noticed me looking at him.

His violent aggression broke and he just smiled at me.

It was warm and full of love and unless I missed my guess, I thought he had tears in his eyes.

He was so happy… just looking at me.

His eyes shifted to Feon, who was still busy hacking into the escape pod.

A resolve seemed to come over him.

He looked back at me, and in his expression, I knew somehow that what he was going to do next was not something I wanted.

That it wasn’t something he wanted to do either.

I wanted to tell him to not do it — whatever it was — that we would find another way out, that he didn’t have to do this.

I strained to understand what it would be, to somehow peek into his mind and see his plans for myself…

But it was no use.

I had to see it for myself.

And when I did, I could hardly believe it…

He put his plasma rifle down, raised his hands in surrender over his head, and slowly walked around the corner.

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