Chapter 16 : I Still Want You

Theodora's POV

Something about spacewalking always made me hungry. My brother, too. Maybe it was the heavy equipment or maybe the zero gravity, but I was starving. Quietly, I started to make myself a snack. Most of the ship had turned in for our trek to a refuel station.

I didn't want to wake anyone up by clomping around the kitchen.

I was too wired to sleep though. Anxious. Feeling close to the completion of this mission, but still too far. It felt like Sol was snatched right out of my fingers. It irritated me. But there wasn't much I could do about it. Besides, I needed some brain fuel while I thought of the next steps.

Once we came back on board, Daxton ate his way through all of our leftovers. Javier went to his chamber to update Cyrus on his daughter. And I reported the unmanned vessel anonymously to the authorities.

I knew reporting it was the best course of action for it. An unmanned vessel was primarily for safety reasons. They were big targets for bandits. They'd u