Chapter 6Though dinner was less tense than breakfast had been, Gideon still found it impossible to fully relax. He sat at the end of the table, jumping up whenever anyone needed anything, listening to Cory and Jesse talk history whenever his ass managed to stick to his chair for longer than a couple minutes. Emma and Dominique chatted about moving plans, with the occasional interjection from the men, and while Jesse glanced in Gideon’s direction every once in a while, he made little effort to engage him in the conversation.
Gideon didn’t blame him. Jesse never reacted well when Gideon held information back from him. Their lines of communication were better than they’d been in the first few years they’d been together, but clearly, they still had lapses.
He tried not to clear away the plat
