Chapter 44

It was a picture of Gideon that he had never seen before. His smile was full of fangs, but oddly playful. He was standing in the middle of two women and two men, and Jesse was almost certain that the other four in the photo were humans. Humans who looked startlingly young, but their eyes seemed very old. Jesse didn’t know if that was a trick of the light. Gideon had a possessive hand around the nearest woman’s waist, and his other hand was blocked by one of the men—who wasn’t much more than a boy. Jesse thought he knew what Gideon was doing with his hand.

“It’s a good likeness of him.”

Michelle turned the page, and there was another photograph of the five of them, but now they were mostly naked. Their poses were still stiff and proper, but their smiles were more playful, their skin pale. She kept turning the page, revealing photo after photo. Soon they were all completely naked. And then the poses changed.