Chapter 13

“I’ll make sure he knows that,” Jesse said, shaking John’s hand. “I’ll call tomorrow.”

She followed Jesse back to the Jeep, his anxiety still readily apparent to her, but it had shifted at this point. He wasn’t nervous about John any more, but he clearly had his reservations about discussing the meeting with Gideon.

“Grave robbing,” he finally muttered as he put the truck into drive. “Grave robbing. Can you believe it?”

She looked at him, trying to figure out how to respond. “Um…no?”

“You know, there’s no good magic that requires pieces of corpses. Gideon does not know much about magic, but even he will see this as the problem it is.” He glanced at her. “I actually take John at his word. I don’t think he’s going to hurt anybody with whatever he’s doing. But Gideon will not be so charitable.”

“Well, if it helps at all, he believed every word he said,” Emma volunteered. “Maybe I can show that to Gideon.”

“I think I should talk to him alone.”