Again, sorry about the long three week or so wait. I blame school and my laptop. I lost Microsoft word and had to do a pc recovery to get it back. This, of course, practically erased everything thing on my laptop. Thank God I had everything back up on my desk top pc. On with the story!
Chapter 21
My body instantly tensed as I watched Shadow warily.
"What are you doing out of bed?" I asked Shadow, but it was Yamir who answered.
"Rico gave him the okay to come down." My eyes flickered from wolf to wolf. The silence in the room was thick with tension. It wore on my nerve and I wanted to say something to relive it but I wasn't going to be the one to break first.
"Max, is that our dinner I smell burning?" Yamir finally asked. I jumped then looked guiltily at the burned meat.
"Uh, yhea. It was. Sorry about that." Shadow chuckled again. I glared at him. "At least I'm not the one dumb enough to run into a tree and knock myself silly." I snapped.
Shadow's laugher stopped instantly. He growled at me, anger sparking in his dark eyes. I growled right back. Yamir stepped between us, sighing loudly.
"If you two children are snipping at one another, maybe we could get dinner back under way?" Yamir suggested. I spared another hard glare at Shadow before rescuing what was left of the meat. To my surprise, most of it was savable. All those failed cooking lessons with Rico were really paying off.
I divided the meat into three bowls and place two of them on the floor. I grabbed my bowl, dumped a mountain of ketchup on it, and retreated to the couch. Yamir and Shadow instantly attacked the food. A smile tugged at my lips. I quickly suppressed it.
It took us about five minutes for us to wolf everything down. Awkward silence descended again. I quickly leaped up and cleaned the kitchen. The wolves wondered around aimlessly. I finally had all I could stand. I whipped around to face Shadow.
"Shadow, what do you have against me?" I asked with my usual lack of tack. Shadow was silent so long I wondered if he was going to answer at all.
"You brought danger into the forest and endangered the pack." He said bluntly. I looked at him stunned.
"Wha-, how could I endanger the pack?" I asked confused.
"Robots are searching the woods for you."