...because you don't lie to Clan leaders before someone stronger than them.
That he was the butler had been the truth, even if he had been planning to 'retire quickly' at the time he accepted the position.
Yet with the mansion in such disrepair and the furniture under white sheets as if no one intended to use them. His skill was needed here.
The Masters lack of demand meant he had all the time he needed to do as he wished on the island as long as he could weave it into butlers' duties.
Time past and he noted that the master never seemed to leave the mansion. Truly he spent most of his time in the sitting room, and most of his time there, before of the window.
It reached a point where he was genuinely concerned and truly wished to serve.
This man, for no noble would leave one of their children alone like this, who had given him a place to stay, made no real demands, whose word had been enough to send away clan leaders and lived in isolation unless visited? He needed someone else in the house at least. He was satisfied by what he could see through one window...
Looking after the house, that had been entrusted to him on the first day was the simplest of duties. Even more so after the first spring cleaning it endured. When he had lost control and discovered that Cadis Etrama Di Raizel had left the house and saved him.
Even if he had long forgotten the desire to leave discovering the man had suffered to save him and learning everything from the Lord. It was not pity that wouldn't have convinced him to make a contract. Not when a contract may subject him to another and he still had so much to learn.
It was his will and desire to be with this creature. A contract could never be undone. When the contract worked he knew that Master also wanted to be with him. They felt so much more from each other and how Frankenstein wished to protect him. A person who would be called noble even if he was born to a lesser bloodline. Such was his character.
I wanted to put out the idea that Frankenstein's devotion developed slowly over the ten years before they contracted, did it work?