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Chapter Twenty-Four

It had been almost five full minutes since I had stopped talking.

Ike hadn't moved for a while, only doing so finally to pick up a remote from the table and play with it in his hands. His leg was jiggling up and down now, and he was clenching and unclenching his fists over and again around the thing. At this rate he was going to break it.

I hadn't really thought it would go over well, the whole murdering my parents thing, but a small part of me had been hoping he would be... at least accepting of it. You don't know that he won't. Give him a moment, this is a lot to process. My panther lectured me. I took a deep breath in and let it out after a moment. She was right. I had just unloaded a lot on him, and we really didn't know each other all that well.

"They really didn't let you shift?" He suddenly said. His voice pierced the awkward silence, startling me and yanking me from my thoughts.

I shrugged and shook my head, pursing my lips. He got up, walked to the kitchen, and poured himself
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