Chapter Forty-Four
UTC Deep Space Prison Delta 97
David Esposito sighed and leaned back in his chair in the small room.
He wanted to believe the guards respected his dignity enough not to bind his hands or feet, but he knew the truth.
They had no reason to fear him.
The chairs and small white table were secured to the floor, and two large guards with stun rods waited outside the room. He wasn’t a hardened killer like Kevan, even if some of his choices in the last few years had led to other people being murdered. It was easy to order someone else to take care of a problem.
Now he was behind bars without his wealth or status. He was nothing—less than nothing—saved from predation only by the few friends he’d made and a baseline professionalism among the guards.
Unless his coming visito
