Chapter 8

While Michelle sipped at her coffee, Gideon didn’t move. “What Jesse needs—what he wants—is to not be scared anymore. To forget. Explain to me how putting him in Brooker’s path again is going to make that happen.”

“Jesse is too kind-hearted for his own good. You do realize he doesn’t hate Brooker, right? He thinks Brooker was a victim, too. He’s got a lot of anger and a lot of confusion, and he has nowhere to direct it, so he’s directing it back to himself. He won’t entertain the idea that the situation is your fault,” she looked directly at Gideon, “for a second. He knows Brooker was insane, but he’s convinced it didn’t have to be that way. And no, he didn’t tell me any of this. But it’s there, if you listen to the way he talks.”

“But won’t it make it worse if we send him to Brooker and confirm that Brooker was once a normal, non-werebear person?” Emma asked.