Chapter 4Mary didn’t know when things became so awkward. One minute, she was bandaging his chest like she would bandage any of her congregation. It wasn’t anything more personal than when she wiped the blood away from a scraped knee, or put ice on somebody’s swollen eye. And then Gideon was touching her, too. Just lightly. It wasn’t any more contact than they had before. But it was enough to distract her. Enough to make her heart jump to her throat, and her blood rush faster. It was a vampire trick, she was sure. It had to be some sort of evil trick. It couldn’t be a genuine reaction to Gideon Keel.
Mary kept her eyes averted, afraid of what he would see if she looked at him. She didn’t want this vampire to know what it did to her to be this close to him. She didn’t want him to know she w
