ELEANOR
His words gave me pause, and I froze for a second, processing them because he somehow thought it was okay to hit me with two bombshells at once.
First, I was not allowed to go join the other slaves at work because my job here was to keep him company? I struggled to understand what was going on in his head sometimes, and second, he wanted to hear about my plan?
Like, right now? I wasn't ready for that yet. The entirety of the plan was still slowly taking shape in my head. Getting him to agree was supposed to be the first step, and I didn't expect that he'd be interested enough to want to hear about it immediately. But alas, since he's agreed to help me, the least I could do was let him in on the process at least.
His eyes were still fixed on mine, sharp and unreadable as he wa
