Renegade Magic (Star Renegades Book 1)

by Jennifer M. Eaton

  An alarm boomed through the deck, the sound echoing off the ceiling and walls.

  “I was kidding!” Ty punched his chair. “Come on!”

  Cal covered his ears, his entire body tensing, the horror of his recent headaches making him want to crawl in a corner and hide. Luckily enough, the pain didn’t come. And he lowered his hands.

  “What’s going on?” Cal asked.

  Ty cursed. “There’s some kind of a leak in the engine room.” Ty called up the comm. “Ethan what’s going on?”

  “Kind of busy right now.”

  Ty leaned closer to his monitor. “Radiation levels are rising. Ethan, get out of there. Now.”

  “And sacrifice the ship? No way. I can hold it.”

  Cal slammed his fist onto the comm button. “No heroics. We’ll figure it out. Get out of there. That’s an order.”

  Static filled the line.

  “Ethan?”

  Ty gulped. His eyes flashed at Cal.

  “Ethan!” But Cal didn’t wait for an answer. He jumped to his feet and ran to the door barely waiting for the panels to open for him.

  He sprinted through the halls, red lights flashing and sirens echoing. The sound of Ty’s boots slamming on the floor tiles behind him was barely audible over the blaring alarms.

  Cal skidded to a stop at the end of the hall a few paces from the engineering room.

  Alanna stood outside the door, pounding her fists on the glass, and screaming Ethan’s name.

  Still holding his screwdriver, Ty pried the panel beside the door off and fiddled with the wires. “I can’t get it open,” he said. “The emergency locks have engaged.”

  “Then how do we get him out of there?” Alanna wiped tears from her eyes.

  Ty grimaced, but he didn’t say what they all already knew. There was no way to open that door. Not with a radiation leak.

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