“Be fast.”
That’s what Gideon had told her before they’d arrived at the house. Be fast. Because time was of the essence. Because Jesse had been gone from them too long already. Because they had no idea what Marcus had done to him.
Because there was no more time to waste.
But Gideon hadn’t known what she was going to walk into. He hadn’t prepared her for the awful reality of seeing Jesse hanging from those damn chains in the ceiling. He hadn’t told her she was going to have to remain calm and collected in the face of seeing the man she loved so…
Broken.
It was obvious where the patch of hair had come from, because he had a bloody bald spot the size of a silver dollar above his ear. One eye was entirely swollen shut. His cheeks were purple and black, his lips cracked and bleeding from b
