Two Can Play
I thanked her and hugged her and went upstairs and texted Lucia that it was on.
Scarlett did my face that evening. She took her time with it, blending and shading and standing back to check me in the light, and when she finished she turned me toward the mirror and I did not recognize the girl in it. The forest green dress I had picked for myself caught the light along one shoulder, my hair fell the way she had arranged it, and I looked like somebody with money and a name and a reason to walk into a room like Dominic Ford's.
Scarlett had not touched her own makeup. Before she could, Sparrow came down, checked his watch, and said it was time to go, and she went with her hair half done and her