Gearbreakers by Zoe Hana Mikuta

Author:Zoe Hana Mikuta [Mikuta, Zoe Hana]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781250269515
Google: 597tDwAAQBAJ
Amazon: B08B569JK1
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Published: 2021-06-28T23:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO

ERIS

“You think you can just march back in here, guns blazing, Bot in tow, and start shouting orders again?”

I open one of my eyes to peer at Nova, perched precariously on an edge as she always is, one hand spinning circles in the bathwater. Juniper sits next to her, jeans rolled halfway up her calves, feet submerged.

“I can,” I say evenly. “And are you going to give me any privacy?”

“I have questions,” Nova huffs, and then throws her thumb over her shoulder. In the corner, Sona is leaned over a small block of porcelain—our sorry excuse for a sink—dragging a damp rag over the cuts on her face. “And don’t talk about wanting ‘privacy’ when you marched in here with it in tow.”

“Don’t be crass, Nova,” Juniper says, wiggling her toes. She gives a slow smile to Glitch, who notes it for a moment before darting her eyes away. “Her name is Sona.”

“I don’t know why you’re so on board with this, June.”

“Just the other day you were up for my séance, in case Eris had died.”

“Well, ghosts are real, duh, and I’m not talking about me.”

“Well, Novs, think of this, then,” Juniper says sweetly. “No Gearbreaker has ever escaped the Academy’s captivity. In fact, all of them are presumed to have died very slow, meticulous, and unimaginably painful deaths. Escaping said captivity would have taken nothing short of a miracle, and I believe it is a miracle for a Bot to have any sort of feelings or remorse at all, and so there Sona sits.”

Nova opens her mouth, closes it, then opens it again, crossing her arms. “And she’s sitting in here with us because…?”

“Eris feared for my life,” Sona says nonchalantly, the first words she’s spoken since we piled in here.

I go rigid. “I did not—”

“The others are not happy that I am a part of your crew,” she continues smoothly, tucking a curl behind her ear to dab softly at the blood on her jawline. “No … I believe it was just Milo, and the boy who shares some of his features. Brothers? But the rest … Xander and Arsen, correct? They seemed more open to the idea of my being here.”

Sona runs the rag under the tap, and the water flushes red once it reaches her hands. She turns her head to get to work on the other side of her face.

“You two seem nice as well,” she murmurs. “Nova and Juniper. I like those names.”

“I don’t fear for your life,” I say loudly, to distract from Juniper’s blush and Nova’s scoff.

“And here I was, enamored by your perceptiveness,” Sona responds, setting down the rag.

“Ouch,” Nova says.

“Glitch,” I growl, kicking Nova’s hand and sending it retreating from the water. “I’m your crew captain. I think I deserve a bit more respect.”

A shadow of a smirk that vanishes just as quickly.

“It is hard to take your authoritative voice seriously when you are sitting below me,” Sona remarks, brushing her pinkie finger along her hairline. “Naked, I might add.

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