War Torn by J.M. Snyder

Author:J.M. Snyder
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: futuristic, gay, gay erotica, gay romance, homoerotic, jm snyder, manlove, mia, military, missing in action, mm, scifi, slash
Publisher: J.M. Snyder

Chapter 8

Rosser glares at me as he massages his jaw. “There went your bars, Captain,” he spits, his lower lip flecked with blood.

The thought of being stripped of rank doesn’t scare me. “Where is Tomas?”

I lunge for him, hands fisting in his shirt, arms straining to haul him up. Anger clouds my sight, blinds me to everything but his smirk and his blood and his laughter, still echoing in my mind.

Then Alden is there, holding me back, shaking me loose from Rosser. “Stand down, Jace.”

I shrug off his hands. “I can’t.”

Rosser eyes me as he rises, the warrant officer beside him helping him to his feet. Wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, he mutters, “What the fuck’s your problem, Captain?” He glances at the blood streaked there before he flicks it away. “I thought you were grounded.”

“Where’s Tomas?” When he doesn’t answer, I go for him a second time but Alden grabs me again, lacing his hands around my elbows and pulling me away. “Where the hell is he, Rosser? Where did you send him?”

“I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Rosser’s eyes don’t quite meet mine. I was right, he sent Tomas on a recon mission, I just know it. I get one arm free from Alden’s grip and swing at Rosser, but he jumps out of the way and my fist just glances along his stomach, not much of a blow at all. “Fuck, Captain. Romero, you saw him hit me? Don’t say you didn’t.”

Behind me Alden growls, “Just tell him where you sent the scouts, Rosser. And we’ll leave.”

Rosser’s gaze shifts from me to Alden and back again, but there’s something in my face that makes him drop his aviator shades over his eyes to hide them from me. Rubbing his jaw, he frowns. “They went to the Bridge.”

The Bridge. Fuck. “How the hell could you send them there? Rosser—”

“I didn’t know,” he whispers.

The cockiness drains from his face and for one bare moment I see how scared he is. He knows he shouldn’t have sent his men out there and now he knows he’ll have to answer for it, not just to me but to the major; he knows he’s in deep and it terrifies him. “How could I have known?”

I feel Alden’s hands loosen and take the opening to lunge at Rosser again, pushing him back to the ground. He falls like a crumpled doll and stares up at me through those aviator frames that make him look blind. I can’t see his eyes but his frown, still a little bloody, makes me sad. “If he’s dead,” I start.

But I can’t finish the thought; I won’t let myself think that, I won’t. Instead I kick Rosser in the thigh and turn away from the scene, leaving them all behind—Rosser, Alden, the soldiers who stop and watch us. “This isn’t over, Lieutenant,” I swear to him. “If I can’t find him, I’m coming back for you.”

I don’t know what I’ll do if I can’t find Tomas, but Rosser doesn’t want to find out, I promise myself that.

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