Chapter forty
PROTECTIVE
Jesse hugged his body tight as he sat in on the interview with Gabriella whose hands shook as she recounted her story of what had happened earlier tonight. The police station was quiet and almost empty, and Marco leaned back in his chair with intense focus while Angelo wrote down notes in a small notepad.
He could tell she was putting on a brave front, but he wasn’t fooled by the way her elbows pressed into her sides and how her shoulders looked tight. Tendons protruded out of her neck as she recounted the way the assailant started chasing her, but how she had stabbed him with her pen. It demonstrated her courage, and he pushed back his need to hold her in his arms and soothe her with his hands. His gaze focused on her profile as he yearned to brush away that te
