Chapter 32
“Considering my track record, the odds of me falling in love with you if you’d tried to stake me were fifty/fifty,” he teased. “I’m almost surprised you didn’t take them.”
“I might have, if I had been aware of the odds.” Jesse lightly ran his fingers over the scars on Gideon’s chest. “Of course, you might have become suspicious when I made it a point to miss your heart by staking you on the wrong side.”
“As long as you didn’t try sticking the stake someplace a little more vital to me, I probably wouldn’t have minded.”
Jesse chuckled. “You’re a strange vampire. And I’m glad I didn’t have to go those distances, because honestly, I might have been forced to do something that drastic.”