Chapter Twenty-Four Jia stretched her arms above her head as she stepped into the galley. It’d been a long day and night, flowing into the next morning, and she hoped they had not risked their lives for nothing. Emma’s assurances were hardly ironclad, and they couldn’t be sure the fundamental premise of the mission wasn’t flawed. Their last major mission to Mars had been one of the more high-profile examples of Alina mistakenly seeing a conspiracy in the shadows. Pissing off Radira Tellvane was a bonus. That might complicate things in the future, but the woman needed to understand they weren’t her pets, toys, or friends, and that momentary alliances of inconvenience didn’t mean Erik and Jia were ready to become members of Prism Associates. The burning warehouse might have been enough to