When Jake didn’t follow her, Phoebe took a few random turns to make sure she really was clear, then got back on course. Jake, she admitted, wasn’t the only one who was curious. And her curiosity wasn’t as impersonal as she would have liked it to be.
Jake could have noticed the guy’s interest and followed to protect her, but just because he was her enemy’s enemy didn’t make him her friend or mitigate the very real threat he could be to her and her friends. It was one thing if it was just she at risk, but it wasn’t.
Her loyalty belonged to Kerry Anne first, her friends second, and the game they were running next, with her hormones coming in a distant last. She couldn’t let herself get distracted by Jake, not right now. He wasn’t, she could tell, going to go away, and not because she was sp
