Assassin's Hunger (26 page)

He tightened his grip on her. “What is it?”

“Sometimes I’m afraid this will all be taken from me, that I’ll be made to forget again. And I’ll be alone.”

“Never. The
Asphodel
is your place now. Between you and the tuner, you’ll have the shipkiller’s archives decoded, and we’ll figure out who Moirai is. This is the closest the captain and Benedetta have ever been to answers. Because of you.”

“And you,” she said. “The underwriters can’t come for you after what the captain threatened to reveal about them.” She shook her head. “Do you really think they destroyed Hermitaj?”

“They never admitted anything, but it fits. Hermitaj had become very powerful, with a technology—you and the other commandoes—that could’ve fallen into the wrong hands. Just like the twins. I could almost consider them allies, since they incidentally set you free, but they never even tried to decommission you, just cut you off.” He set his jaw. “I’ll never forgive them for that.”

She touched his cheek. “As I’ll never forgive them for using what happened to your family against you.” She trailed her fingers to the side of his neck, resting against his pulse. “I wonder if I’ll ever remember my family, at least enough to find them.”

“The memories are still coming back, yes?”

“Slowly,” she said. “Maybe someday I’ll know who I was.”

“We have time. All the time in the worlds.” And his next kiss took her to the stars.

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