Chapter 17
Jesse was a silent spectator of Gideon’s final meeting with Lucas Richards. They had agreed that the man deserved to know the truth—the whole truth—surrounding his son’s death, but ultimately decided that it wasn’t in the best interest to reveal it all. Jesse had insisted that Toby deserved his privacy even in—especially in—death, and they settled on a carefully edited version of the truth that would answer all his questions but spare him the more gruesome details.
Jesse watched Gideon like he always did, but now it was different. Now he could watch without fear that Gideon would catch a gleam, an emotion, a moment he wasn’t meant to see. Lucas didn’t even see him. His attention was also riveted on Gideon, and Jesse might as well been an innocuous piece of art for all the cons
