Chapter 16

It's not until I'm coming up to the corner of Church Court that I realize Jake had called me by my name. A name I didn't tell him. Which means he knew exactly who I was the entire time, and just pretended not to. The son of a...

Had he followed me there? Even as I consider it, I know it's very unlikely. He'd already been there when I stumbled across the place. And he had that huge, obnoxious-looking camera around his neck. He was probably there doing some artsy-fartsy rubbish for his Instagram feed, or something else equally pointless. He seemed the type.

Our meeting was just a pure and unfortunate coincidence, then. The universe playing yet another

cruel joke; put a cute guy within my reach, only for him to turn out to be a complete dick. That was the overall impression I got from Jake. Oh, he tried his best to appear charming and charismatic during our, admittedly brief, encounter, but he'd obviously gotten a kick out of making me squirm. Letting me believe it was hi