Chapter 62

Next to her was a mountain of a man with dark brown skin that practically gleamed on his bald head. Such a starkly different skin tone was unusual; while history books told them that the skin colors of Earth's population had at one point varied greatly, most skin tones now were in a range between light tan and dark tan. Very light and very dark skin was uncommon. He dismissed Alex almost immediately, his eyes settling on Bella who looked back at him with undisguised anxiousness.

"Cora," the Wolf said, nodding his head slightly by way of greeting. "Welcome back. I trust you didn't have any trouble getting here?"

"Scott. Nothing a few hundred credits couldn't take care of," the woman said with a grin. As if that was some kind of signal, the tension in the room seemed to relax and the various parties began to greet each other, the soldiers seamlessly integrating with each other into a mingled mass of greetings and chatter. Ignori