Jacob gave Abel the stink eye before he turned away to look outside the window. Whether that was true or not, he was certainly more than capable of taking care of himself while he recovered, rather than being kept with this person he did not know beyond vague instincts stirred up over millennia of disuse. It wasn't fair that he knew Jacob whereas Jacob was going in blind.

"No shit," he said. "If I didn't have human weaknesses, that whole shebang would never have happened in the first place. Always best to recuperate where it's safe and unknown." Which was to say that the fancy, high-rise hotel room was making him nervous. This was certainly not off the grid. What if those people came back for a second helping?