She almost lost the stranglehold she had on her heart when she saw him shift as she entered the room. He looked so rigid sitting there, his gaze on the datapad too intense to be real nonchalance. Swallowing hard, she urged her stomach to stop clenching as she slowly walked up to the desk. Just focus on the task, Jaya. She said to herself over and over.
“It seems Cerberus is making plans for another attack. Huge stockpiles of weapons have been bought under various aliases they use and taken to an off-world location. More than likely a station orbiting one of the Terminus planets where they know troops are less likely to be sent in.”
The admiral tried to listen to her information without thinking about last night. But her voice trembled ever so slightly as she spoke, and he couldn’t help but wonder if she was thinking about what had happened. It set off a second wave of anger, and his grip on his datapad tightened. Trying to tell himself it didn’t matter, that he would find someone, someone he cared for even more than he did her.
Finally, she reaches the end of her report, and he nearly sighs in relief. Now she can go and leave him alone. He’ll be able to use another information broker for his reports on Cerberus and never have to face her again. “Thank you, Lamba, that will be all.”