Chapter Six
The rest of the day, Eric continued putting out one fire after another. He hadn’t finished his reports, and because he hadn’t followed up with the chief concerning the mess, the refrigeration system had broken down, and the meat, namely the beef for dinner, had gone bad. Most couldn’t be salvaged. On a typical day, this would have been handled, but the problem was that all this had happened during Abby’s dramatic arrival, so dinner was changed to something resembling rations, and of course everyone on board complained.
By the time the captain walked through the door of sickbay later that same evening, the first thing he was aware of was Abby, who refused to look at him or have anything to do with him. It wasn’t so much that she was pouting. It was as though she had resigned h
