"I missed you so much! I was so freaking worried. You have no idea how angry and upset I was, and how badly I tried to find you all. Oh, Lumen? Is he okay? He was asleep when I saw him and I didn't want to wake him up."

Pushing the kid back, which was a feat because his grip was like iron, I was struck by a most bizarre realisation. I had missed him. Like Jonathan and Lumen, over these last few months, he had become another pain in the ass fixture in my life. Barely a day was spent without seeing him.

"He wanted to see you earlier,"...