There she found a secluded spot under a weeping rimu that brushed the ground, and settled down to read.
She’d been there for some time when low voices, male and female, alerted her that Bryn and Kinzi were strolling nearby. Not wanting to eavesdrop, she scrambled up, closing the book, and got her hair tangled in the sweeping branches of the tree before she escaped its clutching fingers. She was picking narrow leaves and bits of bark out of her hair when the other two appeared round a bend in the path and stopped before her.
Kinzi giggled, then covered her mouth and said, “Sorry, Rachel. What have you been up to?” She stepped forward and plucked a small bunch of lichen and a twig from Rachel’s head. “There,” she said, dropping them on the ground.
“Thanks,” Rachel muttered. She must look a mess.
Bryn was regarding her with a faint smile, the skin about his eyes crinkling as though he too was trying not to laugh.
“I was reading,” Rachel said, “but it’s getting cool.”
Determinedly she stepped forward, and Bryn moved aside. She didn’t look back to see them walk on.
Upstairs, she brushed her hair and, leaving it loose, lay on her bed and tried to continue reading, but after a while got up and went to the window that overlooked the back garden, staring at nothing.
After a while she saw Bryn emerge from the trees with Kinzi clinging to his arm.
They stopped under the pergola, Kinzi’s face turned up to his as she said something that looked like an urgent plea. Then she slid her arms about his neck and kissed him.
Rachel watched Bryn’s hands go to the woman’s waist, and Kinzi pressed against him on tiptoe, his dark head bent to hers and their mouths clinging together.
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