Chapter 15Dreams plagued Gideon’s sleep. He knew they were meaningless, that it was a waste of energy to let them disrupt his rest, but each time he tumbled into another one, the images of Jesse and Emma getting torn away from him by a woman he’d never met refused to let him go. He couldn’t lose them. He wasn’t sure he’d survive it again. But he didn’t know how to stop Jesse from doing anything foolhardy.
At some point in the night, Emma crawled into bed next to him and slept half atop his chest. Gideon pulled her into his arms and slept better those hours she stayed than he had any other. When he stirred at dawn, though, she was already gone—off helping Jesse with whatever he was doing to try and solve this dilemma with her empathic abilities.
Gideon rolled over and pulled the blanket o
