No, his boss. Jo's a superhero, too, but he's not in the Legion. He works for this shady piece of nass named McCauley. He's a weapons dealer who's into all kinds of illegal stuff, but Jo was desperate to get out of Rimbor and signed a contract to work for McCauley in exchange for his ticket to Earth. Rimbor's not in the UP, so it was really expensive and Jo has to work off the balance.

[and she sees no reason why not to talk about it, they're both adults here]

Nothing wrong with that, as long as everyone knows that's what's going on.