Chapter 52

He looked over his shoulder to the stack of work, and then back to Gideon. Now he felt raw about the argument, he was even less eager to get back to work. He took a tentative step back to Gideon, his ire gone, his bluster deflated.

Though Gideon took him back in his arms, his hold this time was more possessive than sexual, a calming strength to ease away the sting of the argument. “What work were you trying to do?” he asked, all the fight gone from his tone.

Jesse sighed, his arms going around Gideon to return the embrace. “I know there’s something I’m missing. I keep looking at those reports, and there’s something I can’t see.And John sounded very…impatient in his message. Which makes me wonder if he knows another robbery is going to happen soon.”

“Wouldn’t surprise me. You couldn’t find any patterns in the robberies at all?”