There was no other frame of reference for him to compare. Shannon would learn otherwise, and he didn't intend to mess them up so badly as to mess up Cross; besides, he didn't even think he could do something that bad. Eli was definitely amazing at what he did. "You know I'd never cause trouble for him," he drawled.

"Do my best." He lifted his hand off the leash chain to motion with a large shrug. He really would, too, but there was a lot of unknowns in the situation and Shannon operated better by going with the flow than trying to correct his own course of action. "Shall we get this show on the road?"