Everyone seemed relieved when Zander stood, indicating the dinner was over. Mina jumped to her feet, although she couldn’t go anywhere because she was immediately boxed in by a half-dozen interested males.
Separated from her by the table, there was nothing he could do to aid her. If she even wanted that.
What did she want from him? Had she just been torturing him because she knew he couldn’t do anything at the dinner table? Was this her form of s****l payback for what he’d done with her?
“Excuse me, I’m very tired. It’s been a long few planet rotations.” She elbowed her way through the crowd.
He slipped out of the Great Hall ahead of her, taking the corridor toward the sleeping chambers and waiting around the first corner. The moment she rounded it, he stepped into her path.
“Erick.”
