Skeeter laughed with joy and handed the navigation module to Artemis as she ran up the steps leading into the narrow apartments that belonged to Artemis and Tila. The ghostly pale figure of a female returned her laugh and opened her arms to engulf Skeeter in a joyful hug. Skeeter leaned back to grin up at her former nanny. She fingered a strand of the long, dark blue hair before wrapping her arms back around the slender waist and holding the closest thing to a mother she had ever had.
“I missed you, Tila. Daddy misses you too. I heard him say he should have just killed Artemis when he asked for you, instead of giving in,” Skeeter sighed. “How have you been?”
Tila threw back her head and laughed. Bulldog Ti’Death had purchased her twenty-two years before from a slave trader to care for hi
