Galactic Empire Wars: Rebellion (The Galactic Empire Wars Book 3) by Raymond L. Weil

same
rights and legal protection as every other Human.”
    “Not in my
eyes,” the man retorted, turning to gesture toward two burly looking men
standing at the back of the restaurant. The two started walking toward the
table. “You can leave peacefully or I’ll have you thrown out.”
    “I don’t think
so,” a male voice from behind them said.
    Ryan turned in
surprise, seeing Privates Rios, Parker, and Adams standing behind them. Private
Parker had been the one to speak. “You’re going to serve all of us or when
we’re through, you won’t have much of a restaurant left.”
    “We’re not
afraid of the military,” the manager uttered, his eyes flashing anger as his
two men came up to stand behind him.
    “Let’s leave,”
Casey said with an odd look on her face. “A meal isn’t worth fighting over.”
She knew this was her fault even though she didn’t fully understand why.
    Lauren stepped
protectively over next to Casey. “You’re just as Human as the rest of us,” she
said in a soft voice, her eyes glaring with anger. Lauren stepped closer to the
manager, her body posture extremely threatening. “You’ll take all of our orders
or I’m going to smash your face in and my two friends will beat the hell out of
your two bouncers. If we find anything wrong with our food, we’ll come back and
you won’t like what we’ll do. I can assure you it won’t be pleasant as we’ll
bring more of our friends along with us!”
    The manager
looked at Lauren, not sure what to do. His face was flushed and he clearly
recognized he'd lost control of the situation. He'd never been threatened by a
woman like this before. He glanced at Parker and Rios, who were standing directly
behind her with their fists clenched. Rios cracked his knuckles and took a step
closer.
    “We’ll take
your order,” the manager spoke, tersely. The manager gestured to the server and
then left, taking his two lackeys with him.
    The server
came over and all five of them placed their orders. Lauren ordered several different
items off the menu just to further aggravate the manager. “We’ll take our
orders to go,” she said as the server turned to leave. “I don’t expect to wait
too long!”
    The three sat
down at the table. “We saw you come in here and knew there would be trouble,”
Lauren explained as she looked around the restaurant. The other customers
looked away or down at their food not wanting to meet her eyes. “I’ve heard
several complaints about this restaurant from a few of the other clones.”
    “When we get
back, I’ll report this establishment to Major Winfrey,” Ryan said still finding
it hard to believe what had just happened. “Establishments like this won’t be
tolerated on Centerpoint.”
    “I don’t
know,” Lauren replied with doubt in her eyes. “There’s more of this going on than
you know, Lieutenant. As more clones are admitted to society each year, people
are becoming uneasy. A lot of people have this manager’s feeling, but they keep
it hidden.”
    “I think the manager
might receive a fine, but it won’t change his attitude,” Alexander added.
    “I didn’t mean
to cause a problem,” stammered Casey, feeling unsure of herself. There were
still so many things about regular Humans she had trouble comprehending at
times.
    “I know,” Ryan
responded in a reassuring voice.
    He had been so
focused on his career that he hadn’t been that aware of the growing distrust
regular people had for the Human clones. When he got the opportunity, this was
something he wanted to talk to his older brother about. Wade was heavily
involved in the cloning program. He was best friends with Marken, the head
Kivean, who helped run the massive cloning center back on Vesta.
    A few minutes later,
they had their food and hastily exited the restaurant. Finding a table, the
five of them sat down and began eating.
    “This food is
really good!” Lauren said, surprised. She had about three times more than she
could eat.