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unprecedented.”
    I looked around, then turned back to Ash.
    “Where is he? Where’s D?”
    That’s my nickname for Dr. Death. I’ve known him longer than the rest of the team. And Bob is right, he is unprecedented. I found him on a battlefield about twenty years ago. He was completely naked and everyone around him was dead. He had just annihilated an entire army, but he had no idea why he was there. He has no memory of who he is, or where he’s from. The unfortunate name “Dr. Death” just kind of stuck.
    I’ve never even seen anyone who looked like him. He is around six-foot-two, and very well built. He looks like a marble statue and I’m not just talking about his figure. His skin looks like white marble with pale gray veins running through it. Combine that with his long white hair and glowing blue eyes and you’ve got a real show stopper. He is absolutely beautiful. He is also the most deadly thing I have ever encountered. He has abilities that have not even begun to be realized. I hope most of them never are. My guess is, he’s a weapon of some sort. If he ended up in the wrong hands, galaxies might be destroyed.
    Right now, I really wanted to know where he was.
    I could sense a sun somewhere outside.
    “Have we arrived at Icknar for supplies?” I asked.
    “About that,” Ash said. “The jump drive didn’t quite make it to Icknar. However, we do need to refuel and someone needed to go down to get supplies.”
    Well, D was more than capable of gathering supplies. But there was obviously something Ash wasn’t telling me.
    “Where have we stopped?” I asked.
    Ash looked to Morgan as if seeking guidance before answering my question. He ran a hand through his hair again.
    “Tarnak.”
    “Fucking Tarnak ?!” I turned to Morgan and slapped his arm. “I asked you about the sex slave thing!”
    He threw up his hands in a helpless gesture and offered me only a smile in response.
    Tarnak was a planet originally colonized by cyborgs. It had grown into a planet-wide market place. They traded everything on Tarnak, and I mean everything. Their biggest seller? Sex slaves.
    Okay, I had to get a grip. This was Ash’s ship, which technically made him the captain. Even if we did used to date, that didn’t give me the right to be a flat out asshole without understanding the situation first.
    “Why did you send him out alone on Tarnak?” I asked as calmly as possible.
    “We were hailed by their guards. They asked if we had come to trade. I said no, we had come to buy supplies.”
    Ash was obviously reluctant to go further. When I moved toward him he rose and turned his back.
    “And?” I prompted.
    “And they said that in that case we would have to pay a toll to use their port. They said the fee could either be paid in currency … or in flesh.”
    I gasped and turned him to face me. “You didn’t ?”
    He smiled just a little. “No, I didn’t.
    “Death offered to pay the toll while we waited in line to dock. Someone had to go down before we got close to their shields.”
    “Yes, their shields interfere with my concentration,” Dark Dream said. “And since Icarus is still in need of repairs, it is our only option for going on planet until we can make port.”
    Icarus is our small shuttle craft. Ashton has been rebuilding it from scratch and it’s still at least a few months away from being functional.
    “So, you teleported him down to pay the toll? Where exactly are we now?”
    “If I open the shutters, the sun would kill you,” Ash said, sounding somewhat irritated. “We are still waiting in line to make port.”
    I put my hands on my hips and looked at the men who surrounded me.
    “What is it that you guys know that I don’t, because this is really starting to piss me off?”
    “You’re beautiful when you’re angry,” Morgan teased.
    “Death should have been back by now. Once he paid the toll, they should have shuttled him back aboard or he should have placed a call to let us know it was