Chapter Fifty
November 15, 2229, Unity City, Mars, Hotel Caldanza
Jia rubbed her bleary eyes and settled on the edge of Erik’s bed. She’d been thinking before about not being alone on the ship, but they’d ended up in separate hotel rooms, and she’d not even thought about it until their second day there.
Spending so much time training and hunting down syndicates was having a negative effect on their burgeoning relationship. The memory of their last kiss warmed her body. She needed to push more, but that Martian morning wasn’t the time for it, especially given her cloudy head.
“This planet is messing with me,” she declared. “It hates me.”
Erik looked up from the data window he was examining. “How does a planet mess with someone?”
“If Mars is going to have a different day, it should hav
