After breakfast, Val asked Echo if he could stay for a few hours. She looked a little nervous at the idea. I can imagine she didn’t like the idea of people being here while her master slept.
The more time I spent with her, the more I could feel our bond grow. I was understanding her a little more. She liked things a certain way and when things upset her plans, they upset her as well.
I convinced him to make a plan for staying over next weekend. It gained me a grateful smile from Echo. Just one of the ways I was planning to convince her to love me. I would make sure she was always comfortable and in control.
She’d spent most of her life under someone else’s control. I should have seen it earlier. She wouldn’t see the goddess choosing her for me as a gift. She would see it as yet anoth
