Unspoken: The Lynburn Legacy by Brennan Sarah Rees

Author:Brennan, Sarah Rees [Brennan, Sarah Rees]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780375989186
Publisher: Random House, Inc.
Published: 2012-09-10T22:00:00+00:00

He calls you Cambridge, Jared pointed out.

You knew he did that, Kami said. It’s to tease me for studying so much and wanting to do journalism at Cambridge.

He did know. He knew everything about her, which sounded creepy even to him, but it wasn’t like he could help knowing.

I could give you a nickname, Jared suggested. I could call you Cam—Cam—His brain refused to surrender up anything appropriate. Camembert.

The inside of the Water Rising was dim and brown, with stools that seemed to have old men growing from them like mushrooms from the hollows of trees.

Kami was in another pub, happy and distracted, laughing, but slightly concerned about him.

Jared felt sick of himself. The way he saw it, he had every right to hate Ash. As soon as he’d seen Ash, sitting between his mother and father and looking so much like Jared, it had given him the jolt of unexpectedly seeing yourself in a mirror. Except it wasn’t quite like a mirror. It was like looking through a window into another world, a world where he’d come out right. It was fair to hate Ash, but hating another guy because Kami leaned into him with perfect trust was too close to wanting Kami to be unhappy.

“I have to tell you, boys,” said Rusty. “The last time I went out with blondes who were related to each other, it went a whole lot better than this.”

Jared glanced over at Ash, who was studying the table and looking more like Aunt Lillian than usual. At least Ash was miserable as well.

“This isn’t really a hotbed of frenzied excitement,” Jared drawled.

Rusty looked around at the two old men on stools, the elderly couple bartending who had been giving Jared and Ash apprehensive looks since they’d arrived, and the pool table with the felt curling up at one corner. “Nonsense,” he said peacefully. “This is a very exciting place. They hold duck races here.” Then he put his head in his arms.

“You can’t seriously go to sleep here,” Ash hissed.

“Seriously,” said Jared. “He can.”

Jared went over to the bar and got a ginger ale.

“Seventeen’s old enough to drink over here,” offered the woman at the bar, who Jared thought was called Mary Wright. Her husband frowned a warning at her.

“I don’t,” Jared said, and tried out a smile that made her look more alarmed than before. “But thanks.”

He gave up, wandered back to the table, and asked Ash, “Do you play pool?”

Ash blinked, looking extremely surprised and cautiously pleased. “Not very well.”

Jared smiled. “Great.” He jerked his head in a summons and made for the pool table, set up a game, and grabbed a cue. Then he walked around the table, considering it from all angles.

“How about you?” Ash asked, watching. Ash tended to watch everything Jared did, as if certain the next thing would be appalling.

“I used to hustle pool in San Francisco.” Jared leaned over the table and went for a power stroke. He looked up and grinned. “Sometimes I won by flirting a little.

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