Ambrosia POV
16 Years Ago
So, you understand now? Sylvia asked.
I had another platter- this one was chopped tuna. I’d asked Abigale for something that might be better- something I could put more effort into. “I do. I remember.” I took a deep breath. “I’m sorry for forgetting.”
She brushed against me again, but I sat up this time, looking at her. “I was afraid. I just wanted someone- I didn’t care who at the time. I just didn’t want to be alone.”
I answered a call few others would, Sylvia sat before my offering, that yellow eye piercing me with her gaze. I accepted a contract no one would, to protect a child that I sensed was too alone.
I didn’t know how to answer that, so I only nodded. “So. It has come time to renegotiate.”
So it has. I am only a servant, but after so many years of
