An athletic young man - snippet from ALARIK for #WeWriWa

Welcome to another Sunday with Weekend Writing Warriors. Meet writers in various genres and read 8-10 sentence snippets of their stories. Find a new author and sample their work. Enjoy!
I’m continuing snippets from my newly released SciFi Romance, ALARIK, book 4 in Taxyon Space.

You can read last week’s snippet at https://auroraspringer.blogspot.com/2020/01/not-drill-snippet-from-alarik-scifirom.html

I have switched to the heroine’s pov and her first sight of the hero. She is sitting at the rear of the shuttle, which is preparing to lift off and fly to the space ferry. There is an empty seat beside her.
Alarik, aka wealthy Rick Kent, is running late after traveling across Mars. Of course, the shuttle has to stop for such an important passenger.
[Please excuse my misuse of punctuation to fit 8-10 sentences.]

   A second later, the door swung open and a man jumped into the cabin;  his spacesuit had a distinctive gold sheen.

   The engines slowed. The co-pilot swiveled toward the newcomer and called a question; his words were drowned by the rumble of the drive.

   “Sorry, I’m late,” the man cried, holding his com for the co-pilot to read his ID.

   Compressing his brows, the co-pilot scanned the com and nodded. He jerked his thumb at the seats.

   “Bountiful thanks, Sir,” an athletic young man with a cheerful expression on his narrow face and light brown locks flopping over his forehead, the new passenger strode along the aisle, glancing right and left in search of an empty seat.

  Phoebe watched him approach, admiring his confident stance and handsome, tanned face,.

   He halted by her, asking, “Gentle Lady, will you permit me to sit here?”

  His sincere tone and warm smile won her instant agreement. Mirroring his smile, she moved into the window seat and murmured, “Please do.” 

Blurb:

Two people fleeing different planets discover a shared destiny.

  When an alien spacecraft crashes on Mars, the repercussions sweep throughout the solar system and endanger the fragile new alliance with the Warrish mermen.  

  Alarik Kenton Tallis, First of his Triad, is forced to infiltrate human society on Earth as a spy to insure his injured brother receives proper medical care. But when his transmissions are detected, he must flee the planet.

  On Mars, Phoebe Wong, a veterinary scientist with dubious family connections, is desperate to escape the underworld gangs terrorizing the domed city. She jumps at the chance to join the colonists bound for a distant exoplanet.

  Their paths intersect on a space ferry bound for the outer planets. Trouble created by the mysterious spacecraft pursues them to Jupiter. Will they find the answers in the oceans of Europa, the hyperspace gateway to the stars protected by three diverse species?

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