Chapter 12To say Gideon’s head was a mess was an understatement.
On the one hand, he had Jesse back. Nothing else mattered in light of that. Nothing else could even compare.
On another, he felt responsible for Foster’s murder attempt. He was the one who’d brought Foster into Jesse’s sphere, and though he had no idea why Foster wanted Jesse dead, Gideon had little doubt that was the intent.
On another hand, he had to watch Jesse face his dead mother. Gideon knew next to nothing about her, except that she’d been out of his life for a while and the occasional stray detail Jesse would slip into conversation. Jesse just didn’t talk about her. After witnessing the pain in his face when he saw her, the hope in his eyes, Gideon thought he understood why. At least this one, he sympathized with.
