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“Sweet!” He dives into the bag and goes straight for the junk food.
Nova’s eyes find mine. Her lips curl up softly.Predictable.
I shrug.Thanks for trying.
“What do you have planned for him to do this morning?” Nova asks.
“I told him to stay here until I’m done with the meeting, then I’ll take him back home.”
Nova arches a brow. “That’s it?”
“That’s it.”
She gives Rowan a concerned look.
The kid shrugs.
“Will just locking him in here be enough to keep him occupied?” Nova asks.
“Mom used to leave me at her work too, so I know what to do.”
“Where did Alexa work?” I ask.
He shrugs. “Lots of places.”
I frown at his dodging.
Nova smiles kindly at Rowan. “Would you like to go on a tour of the office? I can show you around.”
“A tour?” I frown. “Do we have time for that?”
Nova lifts a delicate hand and surveys her watch. “We have about twenty minutes.”
Rowan is already scrambling out of his chair in excitement. He clamors to Nova’s side and tilts his head up, waiting for the next instruction.
I’m not happy about this, but I’ve been out-numbered, so I don’t protest when Nova takes Rowan out of the office and escorts him to the labs.
“Upstairs, we have our administration office, but I didn’t think you’d be interested in watching people in cubicles answer phone calls.” Nova flashes her access pass at a scanner and the doors slide apart. She motions Rowan forward. “This is our on-site R&D development lab.”
“What’s R&D stand for?” Rowan asks.
“Research and development,” I inform him.
He bobs his head as if he understands, but I can tell that he doesn’t.
“We have labs all over the country, but the on-site labs are for inventions that we’d like to experiment on as a collective.” Nova’s heels tap on the cold tiles. She motions with long, delicate arms to the ‘hall of fame’. “Many of these inventions were invented by your… by Adam.”
“Lame,” Rowan says, stalking past the wall.
Nova’s eyes trip to mine and she flinches.
I grit my teeth.
“What’s this?” Rowan calls from deeper in the room.
Nova and I turn to him. He’s standing next to the ‘miracle goo’ machine.
“Don’t go near that,” I say in an urgent voice.
