I Was Matched to Seven SSS Beast Husbands novel · Chapter 20 of 24
Chapter 20: Kell Reach
"Tell it," Rhys said.
His voice was low and quite steady.
"If we lived, tell the hall why. Tell it in your own words."
The High Marshal studied him for a long moment.
Then he turned to the gallery, and told it the way a man reads a balance sheet.
"Four years ago the Union's main fleet met the enemy at Kell Reach, and I was losing."
"I needed time to withdraw ninety million lives from the Citadel's shadow. Time costs ships."
"I assigned the Ninth Fleet to hold the Reach, and I ordered the main fleet to fall back."
"Then I closed the jump lane behind us."
No one in the hall breathed.
"Four thousand one hundred crew," the Marshal said. "It was the correct decision. I would make it again."
Rhys's hand tightened on Maxine's until it hurt.
She did not pull away.
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