Chapter Nine
Echo
Echo had never been so tense in her entire life, and it was mostly due to Rhys’s presence in her life and in her bed at night.
It had been three days since the Guardians had staged her two daring rescues, and she had already learned a lot more about them all. For instance, Rhys was sort of the de facto leader, seemingly because neither of the other two were stable enough. According to Rhys, Gabriel was prone to spells of depression and manic magical research, in which he might disappear for days at a time. Aeric, Rhys told Echo, was just paranoid, moody, and blunt in the extreme, plus terrible at dealing with humans. Strangers especially.
Echo had also learned that the three men kept their own hours but generally followed a collective schedule that revolved around pat
