Mattie's eyes flitted suspiciously from Alice to Nick to the clipboard... to Alice again. Then back to Nick. They stayed on Nick. Her hands went up to her hips, and she inhaled slowly, slowly, then huffed her breath out like an irritated rhinoceros. "Nicholas," she said with a strained voice. It sounded like she was actually making an attempt to [i]not[/i] have an outburst. 

"Would you mind telling me why the fuck you randomly disappeared without a goddamn trace except for some Michael Jackson looking hoe?"