Chapter 266 The Other Competitors
With Avery having made his decision in the matter concerning Regina’s investigation, Jasmine, Ezra, and Kaiden headed back to the Specter and began their return to Dramid.
Now alone with only Kasandra again, Avery went to the cockpit and sat down in the pilot’s chair. Slumping against the back and letting out a deep sigh.
"Why can’t things ever be easy?" Avery grumbled.
"That’s just part of your luck I suppose."
Kasandra took her place next to Avery and smiled at him with a teasing grin.
"I’m not sure if I want to hear that from you. Some of the trouble I’ve got to deal with is directly related to you."
"I won’t deny that, but it’s fine. Because I’m cute enough to be worth the extra effort." Kasandra said, swiftly raising her legs and resting her feet in Avery’s lap.
A slight smirk formed on his lips as he understood that she was trying to act playfully to distract him from everything that was going on.
Their trip to the capital system was not supposed to have been this difficult.
A low stakes competition and investigating the wrongdoings of a few corrupt government officials was all that they had been expecting.
Yet, everything had become more complicated the further they went.
There were some shady occurrences within the competition, the investigation that Jasmine was leading was more complex and dangerous than any of them had first imagined, and they had to worry about people from Kasandra and Kaiden’s home world coming after them at any moment. And these were only the three biggest issues that Avery and his team were dealing with. There were others looming in the background.