Daedalus

After embarrassing himself at the end of year office party, Daedalus is given two choices: quit, and lose his apartment, or accept a demotion as the office errand boy. Running errands for Eden isn’t so bad…until one of his less-than-legal side projects overruns the ship.

Just as he’s ordered to transport the woman of his dreams and her precious cargo.

Primula was supposed to build the first aquaponics project on Mars, until an explosion at Exodus Station had both her and her fish winging their way across the galaxy to the Colony instead. Now she has a second chance to build her project on Delta…if only she can get her fish there safely. She’s not sure which is the biggest distraction: the onboard pest plague, the adorable, fish-stealing meowl, or the sexier than sin alien pilot. Maybe all three.

The labyrinthine course of fish farming never did run smooth…or was that true love? But with Lothario the meowl on the case, there might just be a happily ever after for them all at the end.

Originally published in the Pets in Space 9 Anthology.