During the Christmas–New Year holiday, the large Arc Reactor at the Stark Industries research center was shut down for annual maintenance and upgrades. But neither Henry nor Tony Stark had any intention of reporting to the research center.
Otto Octavius, who was serving his sentence, had also suspended his escorted outings because the guards needed time off too and staffing was short. Naturally, he could not come to the research center to keep watch either.
The reason neither Henry nor that young master bothered to keep an eye on the renovation was that the people participating in the Arc Reactor improvement project at the research center were not fresh-faced college graduates. They were all senior experts capable of standing on their own at other companies.
If people like that could not even follow the blueprints and planned procedures without someone watching over them, Tony Stark would have to consider firing every one of those incompetents and replacing them with new employees.
In short, that young master had vanished into some beauty's bed again, spending another fragrant and thrilling Christmas.
This year, Henry followed Catherine Hepburn back to the family's seaside villa in Fenwick, Connecticut, to spend Christmas with the Hepburn Family.
Skye and Lorna Dane went with him, and naturally, so did Kitty the tabby cat.
After school started, Lorna had indeed made some new friends. But Christmas and New Year's were days for families to gather, so Catherine Hepburn brought the little girl, who had nowhere else to go, back to the seaside villa.
As for Quicksilver, who had promised to look after Lorna, he had been dragged away by his other sister, Wanda Maximoff. Henry's instincts told him it would be troublesome, so he did not want to ask what they were doing.
In any case, his only