The captain waved his hand and then approached Eric. "Mr. Johnson, are you all right?"

Eric waved it off. "If you hadn't come, I would've had to come up with an excuse to handle them myself."

He gestured toward Alvarez. "That guy tried to grab me as a hostage. I sent him flying. You deal with them yourselves."

The captain nodded. He knew Eric's capabilities—three or five people couldn't even get close to him.

He had heard about this from Robert. Now that Robert had ascended to a higher posit