Hero for the Holidays by Charles Payseur

Author:Charles Payseur [Payseur, Charles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Gay romance
ISBN: 9781644050651
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Published: 2018-12-28T07:00:00+00:00

AUBREY WAS offline again. Of course. After a few hasty apologies, Cody was out in the hallway and headed for….

He paused. Where exactly was he going? The alarms were blaring, and yet he had no idea what they meant. The last time they had sounded, it hadn’t really been for anything. Had it?

“Aubrey?” Cody tried again.

Still no response. Shit.

Before he could plan his next move, though, there was a thundering bang from the entrance to the lair.

Okay, so maybe there was someone at the front door. Great. Just great. Cody made his way toward the noise. Probably it was just someone from the Superhero Alliance come to ask after Sonny. Probably they had noticed that with Aubrey offline, the island’s defenses were down. Probably they just wanted to talk and they’d be on their way. Or would help to get around the containment field. Cody didn’t know if that thought made him happier or sad. He didn’t want Sonny to be locked up, but once he was released, the chances that Cody would ever see the hero again were slim.

Another loud bang cut off any further thoughts, though, and Cody cleared his throat as he arrived at the front door, which was at least heavy and metal and barred from the inside.

“W-who is it?” Cody asked. With all the systems down, he couldn’t use surveillance to see what was happening outside, and there certainly wasn’t a peephole he could use.

He jumped as the door resounded with another bang.

“Devious! Open up!” came a voice on the other side of the door, heavily muffled by the metal.

Had no one gotten the message that Dr. Devious was away from his lair at the moment? Cody tried to count to ten to calm down but only got to three before the banging resumed, causing the door to bulge toward him, though the heavy bar held fast.

“We’re here for what’s ours, Devious!” The voice was angry and obviously belonged to someone powerful enough to dent metal.

“He’s not in right now,” Cody said as loud as he could without yelling. He didn’t want whoever was on the other side to think he was angry. “I can take a message, though, and I’m sure Dr. Devious will get back to you as soon as he can.”

Cody couldn’t be sure that he had been heard, but for a long while, the banging didn’t resume. Then, finally, the voice returned.

“What do you mean, he’s not in? We swam from fucking Alaska and you’re telling us he’s not in?”

“I’m afraid so.” Cody took a step back, half expecting another attack on the door. “He’s gone off world for the holidays.”

“For the holidays? Off the fucking planet? You’re joking.”

“No. Look, if you want to speak to his AI assistant, I’m sure she’d be able to explain this much better. I’m just the lair-sitter.”

“Lair-sitter? Okay, now I know you’re just jerking me around.”

The door shook and dented inward farther as the banging resumed. Shit. Apparently these guys weren’t as accommodating as Wayward Sun.

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