He’d grown attached to me, as people sometimes do with pets, or anything else they’ve cared overly much for. I wanted too much to return to my room and I felt uneasy about that, guilty for being so selfish. Hot xxx And now I didn’t know exactly what he meant. but you won’t use it, will you?”
“I have to be outside,” I shrugged. Or did he mean I’d be his house pet, a dog who could lay on the furniture and sleep at the foot of his bed every night? “Is that right?” He stroked my hair and sighed a little. He’d invested a lot of emotion in my recovery, transferring the unfulfilled obligation to his dead wife upon me, and it had been confusing for him, that’s all.
