To Marry a Monster
I had burned six million credits for one specific, pathetic reason—Chika Whitmore always tracked red stones.
During our early days at the sector academy, before the wars separated our houses, Chika would join my unit in the tactical archives for midnight study blocks. While my eyes were locked onto complex supply chain manifests and logistics textbooks, his fingers would flip through random smuggling catalogs, searching for anything more engaging than weapon specs.
Tracing the glossy paper, his finger had stopped on a raw ruby layout. Look at the density of this crystallization, Ronan. The color is absolute fire. It looks exactly like a sunflower blooming in a dead zone, don't you think?
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