Chapter 7
Peace. At some point, Gideon decided to give him some, plunging the office back to its normal silence while they both worked. And it was easy to distract himself with work, spending the rest of the week pouring over every detail of the desecrated graves, and cross-referencing those details, until slowly a pattern began to emerge. The emerging pattern lifted his spirits tremendously. By Friday, he was smiling again.
That smile almost faded when Emma and Ethan strolled through their door just after dusk. Just the sight of her was enough to make his groin tighten. He could tell at the first glance that they were going out on the town again. Her scarlet dress was cut short, a sharp contrast to the pale skin it exposed—and it exposed a lot of skin. Even though he had seen her comple
