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I know what’s wrong with your ship and I can fix it.”  She thumped her finger
back over the quote showing on the data pad she was still holding out.  “Take
it or leave it.”
    “I can find another mech for
half that.”  Tolan Lark glared at the little mech as if he could mentally force
a better price.
    The little mech smirked. 
“Good luck.”
    “We will take it,” Lara
said before Tolan Lark could react to the newest surge of heat flaring over
him. The little mech smiled in the face of his furious eyes and menacing
growl.  Lara took the data pad and transferred the platinum from her account to
the mechanic’s.  “I am the Lady Lara of Heti,” she said in Dainaree.  “What is
your designation?”
    The mechanic turned a
frown in her direction and answered in ship standard, swiping the pad from her
hands and looking over the transaction.  “Mechanic,” she said shortly, and then
with one last look at Tolan Lark and ignoring all polite etiquette, she stomped
away.  As much as a Dainaree could stomp that was, which was a little too
liquid and fluid to be anything but graceful.  Still, she got her dismissal
across, and that was all that mattered.
    Tolan Lark watched her go
with limbs that twitched with tension and eyes that hunted and bled to Shakien lavender,
even as the Dainaree disappeared from sight.  Lara let out a tense breath.  Oh,
dear.

CHAPTER SIX
    Barnos watched the fiery
little Dainaree glide off, and then turned his eyes to the Shakien, who up until
now had been much better at this type of negotiation.  Tolan Lark was watching
the girl leave with barely suppressed violence and Shakien lavender eyes.  Jaysus
    “What,” he asked, “was that?”
    “Leave it,” Tolan Lark
spat out through sharper than normal teeth.  He turned and did his own tromping
back to the ship.  His had the furious pounding that the mech’s had lacked.
    Barnos looked from his
departing partner to the Lady Lara, who caught his look and gave him wide
eyes.  “It was like they struck sparks off each other,” she murmured low,
turning her head to watch Tolan Lark enter the ship.  “Even before she gave him
the quote he was bristling.”  She ended with a scrunched brow that showed her
confusion.  “Nori would have moods sometimes, but nothing like that.”
    Barnos thought for a
minute then snorted.  “She was a pretty little thing; maybe he saw something he
liked.”
    Lara gave him doubtful
eyes.  “It felt more like he saw something he wanted to maul.”
    Barnos gave her that slow
dawning smile that promised all kinds of lascivious fun.  “Even better.”
    Lara looked even more
doubtful and Barnos smile widened.  She was just as cute as all hell with her
hair back in that braid and her armor and knives he wasn’t supposed to know
were there.  “So,” he said his eyes trailing heat down her body and back up
again, “we have some time while the ship is repaired.  What say we check out
this bustling metropolis?”
    The Lady Lara looked
around her at the distant spaceport and small trading post set in the middle of
a wasteland.  She laughed, and the sound was surprisingly robust and real,
lacking the girlish giggle he had been expecting from the dainty lady. Damned
if the sound of the woman’s laugh did not make him hard.  “I see what you
mean.  Should we approach that bar first or the other bar?”  She pointed to the
one building and then the other that seemed to be the only areas open to the
public.  The ore miners that worked the distant claims had homes around the
minuscule spaceport, but there was little in the way of public places.
    Barnos let out that
booming laugh of his and offered her his arm.  Like him, she did not appear to
hold a grudge over piddly shite.  He liked that.  He liked that smile she
flashed him even more as it seemed to reach her eyes and set them sparkling. 
She might be naive and useless in a fight but that smile said a lot about the
woman he did