It wasn’t the first time Gideon had woken up to only Emma in the bed with him. Jesse was notorious for waking early and slipping off to go work, and the absence of his body almost invariably woke Gideon up. But this time, he woke with her full breast in his hand and his erection nestled in her soft ass, and he was glad to have some time alone to be able to appreciate her heat. The vampires the night before had done a real mindfuck on him. He knew Jesse thought his phone call was weird, but what was he supposed to tell him? “Oh, I saw a couple of dead ringers for you and Em, draining a poor woman in an alley. Just wanted to make sure you hadn’t gone out and gotten yourselves killed in the half hour since I left you alone.” Yeah. That didn’t sound insane at all. Jesse already thought he

