Chapter 20Jesse kept as much of the apartment between him and Mary’s Gideon as he could. As soon as the vampire stepped through the door, his nostrils flared, and he had looked at Jesse with a sly, knowing grin. Hal, for his part, had merely frowned when he noticed the fresh marks on Jesse’s face, but he didn’t say anything.
A part of Jesse wished they could leave—or wished he could leave. But they all needed to wait for Gideon to come home. Jesse only wished they weren’t waiting in vain. If he came back with nothing new to report, Jesse wasn’t sure what they were going to do. He was damned near positive Henry was the guilty party. If he was wrong, or Gideon simply could not find anything incriminating against Henry, Jesse wasn’t sure they had time to start their investigation over again.
