Chapter Twenty-One
Ripley raced the Aircrane toward the barricaded cave and tried not to think about Gordon sitting in the MD helo dangling on the ropes beneath her.
“Do you have eyes on him, Tham Chau?”
“Yes, two of them. An odd way to ask.”
Ripley didn’t take time to explain the military idiom.
“He is in the pilot’s seat. I have waved,” she hissed in pain. “But my injured arm wishes I hadn’t done that. I think it is broken. But he has waved back.”
Even Tham Chau was more polite than herself. She was the wild beast who punched her copilot because…what was it Janet had said? Do you really love Gordon that much?
Ripley laughed. She couldn’t help herself. It was so obvious that everyone except her could see it. Well, she did now. And all they had to do was survive to see what else the
