Demonic Pornstar System novel Chapter 978

Chapter 978: Geopolitical Warfare

The trio arranged itself into a formation of pure innocence.

"We locked four thousand hate threads about you," Sarah told her, because the truth was coming out one way or another.

"Well, after you got hired," Emily added.

"Before then, we might’ve encouraged such threads." Leia whistled.

"..." Vanessa turned around at that. She looked the three of them over, unhurried, the same flat read she gave a gate mouth, and then she nodded to Sarah.

"Thanks, I guess." She turned back to the rack, and that was the whole review.

The trio moved on in reverent silence.

"She did the quickest redemption arc in Sinners history!" Emily whispered. "I like her a lot more than I ever would’ve guessed."

The stairs at mid-cabin curved up through a collar of the silver veining, and the upper deck opened into a lounge that belonged in an embassy, low tables, deep seats, and one long band of window running the length of the hull.

Two identical shapes had beaten them upstairs and now popped up from behind the nearest seatback, tablets already recording.

"THE COWORKERS!" Kira and Rika announced in unison.

"The coworkers!" Emily answered, delighted, because the group calls had built the bridge already, and the twins descended on the trio for a greeting that was half hug, half camera blocking.

"Reaction shots," Rika directed, backpedaling ahead of them with her tablet up. "Walk in again but slower. Emily, do the face from the arrivals hall."

"I don’t have a face from the arrivals hall!"

"You do. We have it from three angles."

White-gloved attendants with the Circle’s crescent pinned at their collars moved through the lounge with lacquer trays. One of them laid out a tea service and a tower of hot bite-sized delicacies at the nearest table, then glided off.

Leia stared at the tray, then at the crest on the attendant’s pin, then at Kaiden.

"Who is paying for this?"

"I told you." Kaiden took one of the delicacies and ate it with a clear conscience. "My treat."

Emily muffled a scandalized noise in both hands. Sarah saluted him.

"You’re far too shameless..." Leia muttered reverently while taking a glass from the tray.

"Shameless?" Kaiden grinned, and took a second one. "But I’m the Paragon of Virtue."

"..." The girls couldn’t believe their ears.

...

They ended up around the largest of the low tables with tea steaming in front of them. The family came drifting up the stairs in ones and twos until the lounge held the exact faces the trio had spent months defending from strangers on the internet.

The window end went to Calypso, loudly. Bastet took the seat under the warmest light, the caramel cat from the claw machine tucked against her hip.

Luna spun a chair around backward and sat on it with her chin on the backrest. Aria reclaimed Kaiden’s arm before he finished sitting down, Alice wedged herself onto his other side, and the rest arranged themselves close and casual.

Alexandra poured for everyone before anyone asked, and Emily accepted her cup with two hands and total concentration, keeping it perfectly level.

"You’re..." Emily started, and lost the noun somewhere.

"The maid turned Valkyrie," Alexandra beamed, moving down the table with the pot. "Don’t look at the tea set too closely. It costs more than the average annual salary. I checked the manifest twice!"

Sarah waited until the cups were full.

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