Novas Got Nerve by BL Jones

Author:BL Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LGBTQIA+, family drama, sci-fi, fantasy, superhero, gay, government agents, magic, slow burn
Publisher: NineStar Press, LLC
Published: 2022-05-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

Four Weirdoes on a Bed

AFTER MY MEETING with Snow, we find Roux still waiting outside her office. She ignores the suspicious look he shoots her and orders for me to be taken down to HR so I can fill out all the necessary paperwork.

I thank Snow politely and catch hold of Roux’s elbow, quickly steering him away from her and down the corridor. I don’t want him to risk his job by treating Snow to the Roux Nova version of the Spanish Inquisition.

Roux grumbles about being dragged away like an errant toddler, but I make it my mission to distract him by asking if we can stop by Medical before we go to HR. I want to check in on Dru, and possibly see Lady Mars if she’s still there.

After some prodding, Roux assents to my request and we make our way to Medical.

Roux still isn’t very pleased about not getting the chance to rant at Snow. He makes up for it by peppering me with questions about what happened after he left her office.

He’s such an overbearing prick about it, though, that I decide to torture him by giving oblique answers.

“What did she say to you?” Roux demands.

“Lots of things.” I frown. “Most of them enigmatic and weird.”

“What kind of missions will she be sending you on?”

“Don’t know yet. Dangerous and necessary ones I suppose.”

Roux makes a disgusted sound at the back of his throat. “Did she try to collar you to be one of her personal lapdogs?”

“Hard limits were not discussed.”

Roux loses it. “Rex!”

I mimic his loud cry of frustration. “Roux!”

By the time we reach Medical, Roux is huffing like an offended bulldog. I stop him before we go in, wary of the cameras in every corner and the few agents walking by.

I hustle Roux over to a secluded corner, keeping my voice low as I say, “Roux, I’m fine. I’m not a secret assassin. I’m not Snow’s personal lapdog or whatever. She said I could join the SSS unit and that’s what I’m doing. End of story, okay?”

That takes the wind out of Roux’s sails a bit and he visibly calms down some. But he’s still scowling at me like I told him I was going to pack all this in and become a stripper instead.

I would not make a good stripper. My dancing skills are limited to swaying and jumping. And flailing. If that counts. I think it should. Most modern dancing is just flailing with rhythm, change my mind.

“That had better be the whole truth, Rex.” Roux’s voice is brittle and filled to the brim with frustration. “I mean it. You want to be an agent, fine. You want to be a bloody superhero, fine. But I will not stand back and watch you give your soul over to this place. To her. To anyone.”

Oh, Christ on a bike, here we go.

I reach out a hand to gently touch Roux’s arm. When he doesn’t jerk away, I grab on more firmly, wrapping my fingers around his left wrist and pulling on it.

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