Sweet Unrest by Maxwell Lisa

Author:Maxwell, Lisa [Maxwell, Lisa]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: teen, teen fiction, ya book, Young Adult, ya, young adult novel, YA fiction, new orleans, young adult fiction, teen lit, voodoo, teen novel, Supernatural, young adult book, ya novel
Publisher: Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD.
Published: 2014-09-30T22:00:00+00:00

Seventeen

After Mama Legba’s purple van turned out of the gate, I headed back toward the pond. I was tired of going in circles. I was sick of evasive answers.

“Alex!” I shouted when I reached the clearing. My voice seemed to be eaten up by the stillness. “Alexandre Jourdain,” I called again, taking a leap. “I know you’re here somewhere. I want to talk to you.”

I waited in the stillness of the mid-morning heat. The trees rustled faintly in some undetectable breeze, and then, just when I thought he wouldn’t appear, he emerged from the edge of the treeline beyond, his hands in his pockets, his shoulders slumped against the day.

I took a few steps toward him, trying to hide my fear by putting every ounce of frustration I felt into the fire in my eyes. But the fire couldn’t hold. There you are, I thought, wanting to reach for him. To hold on to him this time. But I pushed my feelings—Armantine’s feelings—away.

Alex, at least, had the grace to look doubtful. That’s when I realized he also looked tired. He seemed thinner, and dark smudges lay beneath his eyes. Something was wrong.

“What are you?” I asked before I lost my nerve.

He ignored my question. “That woman is not your friend.” His voice was suddenly cold. “You should stay far from her kind, Lucy.”

“Let’s get one thing straight, Alex. I will do what I want, when I want to do it. If I want to go run around and chant Voodoo songs at the top of my lungs, naked under a full moon, you won’t have a thing to say about it. Got it?”

A ghost of a grin tugged at the corner of his mouth. “Naked?”

I huffed out a sigh in exasperation. “You know what I mean.”

“I understand. But I also know you are new here and you may not exactly understand how dangerous a woman like that can be.”

“Just like I don’t know exactly how dangerous you might be?”

“You would think that of me?” He looked genuinely surprised.

“I don’t know what to think of you! That’s the whole point.” I huffed out an exasperated breath. “You’re here and then you’re not. You tell me half-truths and keep secrets. Sometimes I think you’re a figment of my imagination. Sometimes I think you’re something … else,” I finished softly, finally giving voice to my greatest fear about him. “What are you, Alex?”

He studied me, but didn’t speak.

“Please. Just tell me.”

“You could ask me that?” He sounded frustrated, angry … hurt?

“Why wouldn’t I ask you that?”

“How can you possibly be so blind?” His voice was tired and brittle, an edge of anger cutting through it.

My head jerked up at his words. “Blind?”

“You look through your little camera and draw out the life in everything around you, and yet you cannot see what is right in front of you. What you already know.”

His words infuriated me. “Then maybe I should look at you through my lee-tle camera,” I snapped, mimicking the cadence of his voice.

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