Miracle's Touch: A Super Hero Reverse Harem (Justice Squad Book 1) by J.A. Cipriano & J.B. Garner

Author:J.A. Cipriano & J.B. Garner [Cipriano, J.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2018-02-17T07:00:00+00:00

16

John’s gaze followed my every movement, even as he closed and locked the door behind me, his stormy emotions matching the storm in his eyes. Unlike me, John Munroe looked almost the same as he had two years ago when we had last met. Exactly six feet tall, he was now a hair shorter than me, with broad, thick shoulders tapering to a narrow waist. The way his arms bulged against the Army surplus jacket told me he hadn’t stopped working out, even if he had let his white-streaked beard grow out along with his dark brown hair. I hadn’t fully grasped it before, but now, I realized just how darkly handsome John was.

What had changed was the clothes and the lodgings. Beyond the grungy jacket, John continued the homeless veteran look with fingerless knit gloves, well-worn fatigue pants, and an off-color T-shirt. Still, despite that, the scent of clean lye soap lingered in my nose from when I passed him instead of the smell of the street, and the run-down apartment around me may not have seemed like much, but it was as clean as he was.

The place was maybe three rooms, and that was calling the closet-sized bathroom a room. Threadbare beige carpet covered the floors, and the white walls were discolored with age. The main room was a combination living room/kitchenette, and the furnishings were minimal and obviously salvaged from second-hand stores and junkyards. There was no television or radio, the only outlet to the wider world being an old computer tower, quaintly separate from the desk it sat on.

John gestured at the chipped Bakelite table and the two mismatched chairs around it. “Sit. I was just making coffee.” As I nodded, he glanced at me with a judgmental look. “I’d start talking. You’ve barely got four minutes left.”

I nodded. It wasn’t much time, but John didn’t even have to give me those minutes. “First things first then.” I walked across the living room to sit as indicated, looking up at him as he approached. “I’m sorry.”

That caught him off guard, barely perceptible as he crossed over to the ancient coffee machine on the counter. “Apology accepted.” John turned away, focusing on the task of making coffee. “You know, I was angry after the court-martial. I don’t know what I was expecting. Maybe that the evidence you had found that saved me from jail would sway the Marine Corps. Maybe I did blame you for a while after, but that’s not fair, is it?”

“I don’t know,” I admitted. Biting my lip, I looked out the cracked window over the slums. “I blamed myself too. If only I had done more, found one last clue …”

John grunted as the hot drip of water filled the silence. “You did all you could. I was the one who failed, at the end of the day.” He turned back to me, stuffing his thick-fingered hands into his pockets as he leaned against the counter. “I didn’t figure out what Hardware or Omnitech were doing, not until you came to me with the start of your investigation.

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