Echo & Accidental Origin
Bella told herself she wasn’t looking for him.
She typed another sentence on her blog, paused, deleted it, and glanced toward the stage lights warming against the evening sky. Echo shifted under the café table, ears flicking at the distant sound of a guitar being tuned.
It wasn’t even his set yet.
Still, Bella felt it — that pull. The awareness of him somewhere nearby. Jasper Whitlock didn’t enter a space quietly, even when he tried. It was in the way the air tightened. The way her pulse answered.
Echo lifted her head first.
“Don’t,” Bella whispered.
But she was already smiling.










