“Uhhhhgggh,” he moaned with obvious annoyance, but then we were out in the hallway, and I was locking the door.
“Lux,” I said after I hit my transponder.
“Yes, Adam?” the Valkyrie replied.
“Yu tore into his ceiling and managed to craft some sort of taser out of the light module. We need two people to take him to bathroom moving forward, and they need to search him before and after he gets back to his room.”
“Understood,” she said.
“Adam,” Nikki said as soon as Lux finished speaking. “We will arrive in Nordar - 13 in half an hour.”
“Great,” I said. “Call everyone to the bridge.”
“Will do,” the pilot replied, and then she made the general announcement while Eve and I walked toward the elevators.
“Don’t worry about Yu,” I said to Eve. “He’s a piece of shit.”
“Yes,” she said with a heavy sigh. “He knows how to anger us.”
“We won’t have to worry about him for much longer,” I said. “He’ll be sitting in the cell in Odin Geirr. After a few weeks, he’ll begin to wish he’d told me everything he knew. After a month, he’ll be begging me for conversation. I know what it is like to be stuck in a cell. It only takes a few days to realize you’d do anything to be free.”
“I wish it did not have to come to that,” she said. “He hints that we are on the same side.”
“He still tortured me and shot me full of drugs,” I said. “Maybe the tiger was already inside of me, but he didn’t do me any fucking favors.”
“Agreed,” she said.
A few minutes later and the crew arrived on the bridge. Paula and Zea were sitting in their seats on either side of Nikki. Eve and Kasta sat on my right while Madalena and Sivaha sat on my left. The thought of four of them heading down to Nordar - 13 - a alone made my heart beat heavy in my chest, but I knew I wouldn’t be able to talk them out of it.
I also knew they would be successful. Eve, Zea, Paula, and Kasta were extraordinary women who had overcome amazing odds already.
The Nordar rite would just be another notch on their belts, and then they would become more powerful.
“Exiting warpdrive in three, two, one…” Zea said, and then Persephone’s screen blinked on.
Then I saw the ships.
When I had first come to Nordar - 13, I’d been amazed by the thousands of ships hovering between the three planets. It seemed as if there were more vessels than stars, and the sheer power of the Vaish Overlord Clan hit me in the gut like a punch from a prizefighter.
But this was another level of insanity.
There were almost too many ships in the space around the planets. They were everywhere, and I almost couldn’t see the planets because of the size of the armada
There must have been millions of ships. Too many to count, even if I had a lifetime.
“Ohhh shit,” Paula, Kasta, and Zea said in unison.
“Behold the new Vaish armada,” Sivaha said. “My arm of the navy is now here, and I suspect that Kuroda’s have arrived as well.”
“How many ships?” I asked as I turned to my two queens.
“I will get an exact count,” Madalena said, “but I estimated one and a half million when Sivaha and I first spoke about joining the fleets.”
“Damnnnnn,” Zea gasped. “It’s incredible.”
“It is,” Sivaha said, and I could feel her pride flow around her like a whirlpool. “It might be the most powerful armada ever to assemble.”
We all stared at the scene for another minute in silence, and I felt my mind wander. The trip back to Ganymede had reminded me of where I came from. I was once a poor kid living on a distant moon. Yet here I was, in command of billions of people and over a million warships while I also enjoyed the love of four amazing women.
My mother and sister were now with me, and even though I was still puzzling through my past, I knew I’d figure out how to fight off my insanity. I’d never let the beast win.
I was the one who won.
I always won.
“Nikki, take us in,” I said. “We are going to spend a few days recovering the drives before Eve, Zea, Paula, and Kasta begin their rite. Then we are going to visit the Idonan Blood Overlord Clan.”
“You will seek an alliance with them?” Madalena asked.
“No,” I said as I turned to face her and Sivaha. “I am going to bring this armada. When I get there, I will tell them to bend knee to their new master. And if they don’t, I’ll tear them into pieces.”
End of Book 9
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