Chapter 16
Gideon couldn’t remember the last time he’d been so impatient for a sunset. The hours between Emma’s phone call to Brooker’s office and the moment he knew he could safely step outside stretched like a deserted highway across the plains in front of him, long and lonely, even with Emma’s constant presence. The only time the phone had rung was when somebody returned a phone call.
Not one of them had been Jesse.
“Stay next to the phone,” he ordered Emma as he got ready to go out. “The second you hear anything—anything—you call me.”
She agreed with a tight nod, her eyes huge. Gideon was halfway to the door before he came back and cupped her head in his hands, holding her still as he gave her one last kiss. Her nails dug into his arms as she kissed him back, but the entire caress
