Chapter 60

As soon as he was finished, he was out the door. It took exactly sixteen minutes to walk to the office from his apartment, and he never varied from his path. The streets were sweating, pulsing with light, but he was alone in the early morning. Of course, he wasn’t alone. The vampires and demons were simply lurking beyond his senses.

I should have waited a few hours until dawn.

By the time the thought occurred to him, he was only five minutes away from the office. From Gideon. He put his head down and quickened his pace, his hands buried in his pockets, his fingers brushing against the bottles.

“Hey.”

Jesse glanced up, but he didn’t stop. “Rina?”

The vampire stepped out of a darkened doorway. “Where’s Gideon?”

“Have you been trying to reach him?”

“He’s not usually far from you, is he?”

Jesse shrugged. “Do you need something?”

Rina grinned. “Yeah, I do. Do you know what I heard last night?” She began rolling toward him, her hips swaying aggressively.