Fierce Informer (Sierra Pride Book 6) by Liza Street

Author:Liza Street [Street, Liza]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-10-05T04:00:00+00:00

nine

Justine woke to the sound of someone using the shower in her bathroom, and she groaned. Of all the rooms in this hall, the Coronas had to put Laura in the room that shared a bathroom with Justine’s? Cruel.

Now Justine understood why Gloria had said she should give Rafe a chance, and why Gloria hadn’t said anything about Mateo. Because Mateo had a freaking girlfriend. A beautiful girlfriend. Justine had never felt self-conscious about her looks, not even in school. But now, suddenly, she looked at herself in the mirror and found everything lacking. Boring brown hair, thick scowling eyebrows, no sense of fashion.

It was her mind playing tricks on her. She looked the same as she always had, and she was as fine with her appearance as she’d always been, and dammit she was not going to let some guy’s betrayal make her start doubting herself.

“I love you,” she said to the mirror, like her Aunt Nan had taught her when she entered middle school. “I love you, I love you.”

“And I love you, too,” Laura said, sticking her head of shining, dark brown hair into Justine’s room. Without knocking.

Justine turned away from her. “I’m not really a morning person.”

“Open your window and look down.”

“What? Why?” But Justine did as she was told. Curiosity, cats, all that. “There’s nothing here.”

“Are you a lion like me, or not? Use your sniffer.”

She did, and inhaled the scent of Mateo. Well, that was fucking cruel, too. She didn’t need an olfactory reminder of how strong her feelings were for him.

“Let me put it simply,” Laura said, coming the rest of the way into Justine’s room and wearing nothing but a towel, at that. Her pale green eyes were wide with earnestness. “He slept beneath your window last night. He’d never have done that for me. We had sex, yes, and before you rip off my face, I’ll tell you it was just for fun, about as meaningful as masturbating. We were always breaking up and getting back together again, and yeah, we were broken up when he left the valley resort. Technically, we haven’t really been a couple in months.”

Justine blinked, trying to comprehend everything Laura said.

“Look, I was being all clingy and girlfriend-y when I showed up because it irritates him when I do that. It always has, and I’ve always enjoyed pissing him off. But then I could see within five minutes of arriving that he felt something for you. Now I feel shitty for interfering like that. It wasn’t fair. He really likes you—I can tell—so maybe you should give him a chance.”

Justine sighed. As angry as she was, she’d barely slept last night. She’d been mad at Mateo, and hungry from skipping dinner and hoping to avoid Mateo, and then she was mad because she was hungry.

Beneath all that was a festering sense of regret—leaving here today would be the wrong move; she felt it in her gut.

“I’ll talk to him,” she finally said.

“Good.” Laura smiled. “He’s been making lots of phone calls.

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