“You’re gonna leave me alone here, with him?” Hel sneered, his nose wrinkled at the prospect, “can’t I come with you?”
“No, Hel…” Aki sighed, running his fingers through his hair for what the boy had counted as the fifth time since he’d come downstairs. “I have to go to work. I should have left already.”
“But-?”
“You thought I just sat around my house waiting for distressed supernaturals to drop in and eat all my food?” Aki smiled at him, “Sorry to disappoint you, bud.”
Hel shifted uncomfort