Chapter 6
“Captain, are you all right?”
ZalAna’s voice broke into my contemplation of the report in front of me. Or at least, the report I was fake-reading while my mind was somewhere else. On someone else.
“Hmm? Oh, yeah. I’m fine,” I answered with a wave of my hand. We were supposed to be going over the latest reports from the labs before making a tour to get in-person briefings. We’d been at it for a few hours, and I was doing my best to fool her. I thought I’d had her convinced.
“Majel, privacy mode.”
Or maybe not.
I blinked and looked up at my second-in-command as Majel made sure the room was private. I narrowed my eyes, but ZalAna simply smirked, which was an odd expression on her face. She lay aside her tablet and pierced me with a red-eyed stare.
“We have the briefings in th
