The Vampire’s Servant novel Chapter 10

I couldn’t think of an easier way to tell her everything. I knew dumping it on her like that wasn’t great, but I wanted her to have as much time as possible to process it. I had to believe that she would be okay.

After she slept and had something to occupy her mind, she would feel better. Echo wasn’t going to let this eat at her. She was going to pull herself together and do what she could. I could see that sort of resolve in her personality.

There was one way I could guarantee she didn’t have to do what her sire wanted…. I couldn’t bring myself to do that. I know she would have been considered an adult when I was alive, but she was so big eyed and innocent about so much. Seeing her as anything but a child was difficult.

I worked through the night on the research needed for the vampires and donors Silence wanted me to reprimand. I would do that tomorrow night. The scene with Echo had me worried about leaving her alone.

Dawn arrived. I worked for half an hour after and started to head to the basement. I couldn’t wait for the house to be done, so I wouldn’t have to sleep there anymore.

When I opened the door, the smell of mildew was gone. It smelled clean. Echo had cleaned the room.

She stacked my mattress on the old mattress Springer had used and changed the sheets to Egyptian cotton. She must have bought them yesterday. I would have known if any existed in this house. I smiled. Did she buy them thinking of me?

Echo really was the best servant I’d ever seen. All of her work had been done to make me comfortable. She did things for herself, but tried to anticipate my needs and preferences. She was polite and hard working.

If there was any way to keep her safe, I’d find it. Even if it meant going to my sire for help. I faded from the world thinking about how I could save Echo and keep her for myself.

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[Echo]

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I hadn’t slept well last night. It didn’t help a lot when I was at the furniture store with Drew. The sales guy was thrilled at my running all over to find things.

I told him I needed the highest quality of every item I was looking for and kept remembering things just when I thought I was done. He looked sad when I had to go to the appliance section, but waited nearby in case I remembered something else. Which I did.

Once I was certain I had everything, we went to the registers. The number that came up made me nearly panic, but I remembered Victor saying he could afford to buy me. This wasn’t anything near what I cost. Not even near what he paid my parents for me.

We arranged for everything to be delivered after noon the next day and they said they would put things anywhere I wanted and install my washer and dryer. They pushed off all of their deliveries for the next day and hired a moving company to help. When you spend a lot, I guess they give you a lot.

I called and found a hauler to take away the old furniture to be donated to the women’s and children’s center downtown in the morning. Now that I knew what size the beds were, I had Drew take me to a store for sheets, blankets, and pillows. While I was there, I bought decorations for the house, too.

We went to the bookstore and I bought a whole lot of books for Victor’s library. I offered the cashier extra money if he could bring them to the house and put them up.

My sister was a cashier and I knew they didn’t make a lot. He jumped at the offer of a thousand dollars, cash. It was probably a lot more than the job was worth, but I didn’t want to be stuck in the library all day while I had to try directing furniture.

Drew told me we needed to go to an electronics store for a laptop. While I was there, I bought a desktop computer for Victor. They said it was one of the best.

I bought a few video games and one of each type of console. I always wanted to play the games my brother had in his room. I added a huge smart TV and got a bunch of movies, Drew said the smart TV was a good idea.

He told me the consoles would play movies, so I didn’t get a Blu-ray player. The TV would be installed on Wednesday.

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