Chapter 13
Across from him, Jesse Madding and Gideon Keel sat calmly. They had gone directly to those chairs, and David couldn’t help but wonder if it was a force of habit. Did they visit the hospital so often, they just found themselves sitting in the same chairs, waiting for the same doctors, time after time? Jesse looked worried, his brow heavy, his mouth pulled into a thoughtful frown. When they had met earlier, David thought he seemed like a normal enough chap. A fairly attractive one, at that. Somebody he might have flirted with under different circumstances. Gideon, however, mostly looked bored. Occasionally, his nostrils would flare and it would strike David like a blow to the head: I am sitting across from a vampire. That’s a bloody vampire.