DECLAN

“Star, Dec and I are heading to the office. Trent and Luc are around if you need them”, Ember hums at Saint's words and barely stops typing when he kisses her; I say bye, and she glances at me with unseeing eyes, still focused on what she’s doing.

I fire off a text to Trent to keep an eye on her, as she doesn’t seem to be on this planet at the moment, and I get a thumbs-up emoji

“I didn’t realise she would zone out that much,” I say to Saint as I glance behind to see the hair slide, she’s wearing.

‘When did Bas make her that? He normally shows us stuff that he makes. Maybe I should get her something, I’m bombing this big bro job; Saint breaks me out of my personal ass kicking

“She wants to be a published author and a known artist; she’s typing up her life, don’t take offence”, he lets out a sigh, rubbing his face. Well, fuck she should have done that with one of us around, but even Miles is at college today.

“Come on, let's get in and start ticking all the boxes about the scum we picked up at Inferno”, Saint says, grabbing my shoulder and shadow-travelling to the lock-up.

“Yeah, the demons sent Link an email earlier about the kids, apparently, Laurent’s palace is overrun with them now” Laurent is the name Ishiludur uses earthside for those that don’t know his true name. We decided to stick with that when talking about him, so we don’t slip up.

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