Chapter 4Though Gideon grumbled every step of the way, Emma finally convinced him to go back to bed after Jesse and Cory left. He’d barely slept all night, too fixated on Jesse’s anger to relax. Making breakfast had helped a little bit, but when Jesse had huffed off with Cory at his heels, Gideon had promptly sagged.
“Know what other days I miss?” he’d complained. “The days I could just chain Jesse up indefinitely in the playroom until he behaved the way I wanted.”
She’d wanted to tell him he still did that to some degree, but the clarification would have been lost on him. She settled for promising to let him know when Jesse got home, though she sincerely hoped Jesse would be the one to wake him, ready to really talk about what had happened.
Emma normally spent Saturdays at her small ga
