SECOND CHANCES - Chapter 8
15 May 2018Jemine Caesar
The fires within the hulls of dead and dying ships danced in Sola Morgana’s dark eyes. The raid had been a success. Caught unaware, the Gal-Cop escorts had been wiped out, the fat, defenseless freighters easy pickings for the clan’s boarding crews once stripped of their protection. Clan Rhys had this day succeeded where few had before, and glory would be showered on it from throughout Pegasi.
The expanded clan fleet stretched over many acres of land when it again settled upon the rolling plains of New Cambria; it had been the fear of many that few or even no ships at all would return. The role that Jyrron’s cunning beauty of a warrior mate had played in leading the charge and boarding the Gal-Cop freighters was by now well-known. When the woman appeared from within her captured Anaconda, her name was shouted by all, chanted until her clansmen were hoarse and could shout no longer.
It was a scene that years ago would have caused Jyrron or his cruel father Madoc to choke the life from the woman, but times had changed. Jyrron was content to smile and hold his warrior-mate’s hand aloft in the air, deluding himself that he too was being honored. For his part, Madoc knew that to directly challenge the emerging celebrity within his clan would have been seen as a move born of petty envy. Instead he elected to simply ignore Sola’s triumphant homecoming by absenting himself from it.
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