The Stars Never Rise by Rachel Vincent

Author:Rachel Vincent [Vincent, Rachel]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780385744171
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

My eyes narrowed at Finn. “I don’t…I don’t know what that means.” I’d heard the words, but they didn’t make any sense.

Finn ran one hand through his hair. “I know. This is…This is harder than it’s ever been before. Um…” He glanced up at Reese, who stood pressed against the far wall as if he were trying to give us privacy without leaving the room. “You ready? I don’t know how else to do this.”

I twisted to see Reese nod. Once. Solemnly. When I turned back to Finn, his eyes were closed. They stayed closed for one of the longest seconds of my life.

When they finally opened, they were the wrong color.

Finn’s green eyes were now blue. Not blue-green. Not aqua. Bright blue, and as clear as the Caribbean Sea had looked in a film I’d seen in geography my freshman year.

“What the hell?” I took two steps back in confusion. Then I took three steps forward in fascination, and we were inches apart.

He blinked, once. Twice. Finn’s forehead furrowed, and then he backed away from me so fast he almost fell. “I…”

His newly blue eyes widened in bewilderment. He looked…lost.

“I…,” he said again. Then he looked over my head. “Devi!”

The bathroom door opened and Devi came out wrapped in a very short brown towel, her long, dark hair dripping wet. She didn’t seem to care that she was practically naked in front of two different guys, with all the lights on, and they seemed no more surprised to see her in a towel than I would have been surprised to see my sister in one, in the privacy of our own home.

But Devi wasn’t their sister, and this wasn’t their home, and they weren’t really family.

Did the boys walk around in towels too? I’d never seen a guy in as little as Devi wore.

And suddenly it occurred to me that even during the carnal rebellion following my sterilization, I’d actually seen and truly experienced very little.

That was when I noticed that Devi didn’t wear a purity ring.

She took one look at Finn’s weird blue eyes, and then her face erupted into a huge smile for the first time since I’d met her. She looked stunning in that moment. Immodest and forbidden and relieved and…happy about something I hadn’t yet wrapped my mind around.

“Maddock!” She shoved me over and threw herself at him, and the only thing holding her towel on was the fact that it was pinched between their bodies. While she kissed Finn. Whom she’d called Maddock. Who kissed her back. And had blue eyes.

“What the hell?” I turned to Reese, who held up one finger, an obvious request for me to wait a second.

Wait for what?

He closed his eyes, and when he opened them an instant later, his brown eyes were green. Finn-green. Unmistakably.

“Nina?” It was Reese’s voice. But they were Finn’s eyes.

“I don’t…” I retreated until my back hit the wall, my heart thumping so hard I could practically hear it.

“What’s going on?” Finn said from behind me.

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