Page 3 of Digital Desire

“Hell yeah, what’s the plan?”

“We’re going to steal a plane from Eidolon and fly to Colombia.”

“Awesome. Who’s flying it?”

At that moment Liam walked through the door, and they both turned and smiled at him.

“He is,” Will said with a look of determination.

“Oh no, no fucking way. Jack would fucking kill me mate,” Liam said backing up.

“Pussy,” laughed Drew as Will raised an eyebrow.

“What did you say?” Liam asked with a tilt of his head which told Will that Drew had bated him into the job.

“You heard me,” Drew laughed.

“I’ll show you a pussy,” Liam said with a sneer as he turned to go back in the dining room.

“Where the fuck are you going?” Will asked with a frown.

Liam turned around, his hands on his hips. “To finish my fucking dinner. That is good shit, and I haven’t had a cooked meal in weeks.”

Will grinned he guessed he could give him that for the shit they were all about to cop when his brother and boss found out what they had done.

“Fair point and that stuffing is amazing,” Will said as they returned to the loud dining hall where everyone was now wearing cracker hats and chatting as they ate. He resumed his seat and grabbed the bowl of red cabbage, piling his plate high. It was the only veg he liked and with any luck, if he put enough on, Mimi wouldn’t notice the lack of sprouts.

He looked up at Lucy’s voice.

“Everything okay, Will?” she asked with a raised eyebrow.

“Yeah, just my mum on the phone,” he lied as Luce raised her eyebrow again, her way of calling bullshit. He looked away and saw Zack looking at him with a frown. Sometimes it fucking sucked being surrounded by operatives. Getting anything past them was like getting a hooker into the Vatican.

“So, Celeste did you decide about getting Samson a girlfriend?” he asked knowing it would distract the attention away from him. Shovelling a mouthful of turkey and stuffing in his face he sighed. Liam was right, this was good and when he went after Aubrey, who knew when he would eat again.

“Yeah, we think we’ll get him a friend, but probably a puppy as I think he will take to it better. Zin wants to train this one to work with him, so a puppy would be better,” she said smiling at Zin.

“Oh, my God, a puppy!” Katarina exclaimed excitedly.

Zin smiled at his niece, the cold assassin was a complete pussycat with his family. Nobody would believe the difference Celeste had made to the man known to many as the Viper.

“You want to help us choose her?” he asked Katarina and Natalia as Roz glared daggers at him, and Kanan leaned back and smiled.

“Can we?” they asked K.

“Ask your mother,” he replied with a wink to Roz.

Roz turned her glare on her husband then, and Kanan laughed and kissed her soundly. “Fine but don’t even think of asking me for a puppy. I have enough to do, I don’t need a puppy to run around after,” she said to the girls she adored.

“And the metamorphous into a housewife is complete,” Will said laughing, enjoying being with these people more than he ever thought possible.

This was his home now, and although he missed his mum, he did not miss the rigid control his father held over everyone. He wished his brother would tell him to fuck off and knew one day he would, and Jack would be happier for it.

“Don’t you start teasing her,” Mimi said with a stern face, “and where are your sprouts?” He saw Roz laugh and give him the finger discreetly. “Everyone has Brussels sprouts at Christmas. It’s a tradition.” Mimi continued as she stood and moved around the table to dish him up a spoonful.

“But I don’t like them,” he said with a look of distaste at the tiny green balls of putrid evil.

“I don’t care, it’s tradition and if my Nate can eat them, so can you. You need a healthier diet, my boy,” she said as she kissed his head to ease the rebuke.