Chapter Nineteen

“Are you hiding?” a deep rumbly voice from behind me sounded and I squealed and whirled around to see Echo looking down at me with a smirk from where I sat behind the small pool shed, relaxing in a patch of nice shade. He laughed and sat down beside me, laying back on the grass with his hands behind his head. I shrugged and lay down with him, using his stomach as a pillow.

“Kinda,” I admitted with a sheepish shrug as I looked up at the clouds moving through the sky, the trees waving in the wind and taking a deep breath of the crisp cool air. “I know it’s ridiculous and childish, but I’m just a little...overwhelmed. Kane and Magnus are everywhere and every time I turn around one of them is there and I’m just not sure how to act around either of them right now.”

“Hmm. Ok you know I love you, so when I say this, know that it comes from a good place.” I turned to