Cuckoo (Kindred Book 3) by Scarlett Finn

Author:Scarlett Finn [Finn, Scarlett]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: SFinn
Published: 2016-09-04T18:30:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

Dropping her purse to the vanity, she fell against the locked bathroom door. “Stupid,” she hissed at herself.

Art and Brodie had both told her that Tuck was a private person. She’d always assumed they were exaggerating because he was open with her. Now she saw that he was open about the Kindred, open about Brodie, all things that involved her. His life beyond the Kindred was a closed book, and she should have taken the advice of those who knew the hacker better than she did.

When she got to the bathroom mirror, the reflection staring back didn’t look like her. Her hair was a matted mess. Her makeup was smeared. She’d taken on the appearance of the persona she wanted outsiders to think she was. It was no longer an orchestrated façade, instead she was one hot mess. Random, rough sex and backcombed hair were a recipe for a grooming disaster.

Turning on the faucet, she washed her face and took her comb from her purse to try to tease her hair into some semblance of order. The battle was a losing one, it would take serious time to score victory and she didn’t have that to spare. Her scalp was beginning to hurt, and she was already grumpy enough after her dumb misstep with Swift. If she went back into the room with a headache, her bad attitude would probably get her into an argument. In close quarters with these guys, for an undefined period of time, Zara didn’t want to test their tempers any further.

She pulled her hair into a ponytail and fastened it with a tie from her purse, then she took out her rolled ballet flats and put them on. Wherever she and Brodie were going, being covert was going to be more important than being sexy, so the thigh-highs just wouldn’t do. Content that she’d done the best she could, she psyched herself up to leave this room and apologize to Tuck before departing with her love.

With a deep breath, she opened the bathroom door and dropped her purse to the floor again. Striding into the body of the room with her mouth open ready to launch into her apology, she came up short when she saw that Tuck was the only one here.

“Where’s Raven?” she asked, deflated.

“Doing a job,” Tuck said and slid along the couch. “See for yourself.”

He’d ditched her? She was supposed to be going on this job with him. She was more than a little pissed and disappointed that she’d been left behind when she hadn’t been in the bathroom for a prohibitive period.

“No,” she said, hurrying over to sit on the couch and peek through the lens to see her love inside Kahlil’s bedroom, hunkered down right next to the bed. “Why did he—”

“He thought we could use a minute alone.”

It made her feel somewhat better that she hadn’t been cut from the team for fear she might be incompetent, but that did leave her facing an awkward conversation in her immediate future.

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