Unremarkable (Anything But Series Book 2) by Lindy Zart

Author:Lindy Zart [Zart, Lindy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-01-07T05:00:00+00:00

Returning from a two-hour run through the woods that he had hoped would center him and had failed to do so, Christian was not prepared for what greeted him as the house came into view. It was nighttime, but he was able to make out dancing, laughing forms. One lone figure was not involved in the silliness, standing on the sidelines watching instead. He stopped just behind her, his eyes locked on her instead of the activities in the distance.

“What is this?” he demanded.

Natasha glanced over her shoulder at him, crossing her arms. She had yet to remove his shirt. “They’re celebrating.”

“We just lost two of ours. What is there to celebrate?”

“You know, they could blame me,” she mused. “I had the tracking device on me. I unintentionally led the UDKs here. It’s my fault your friends died. And they could even say I knew they would come for me just so they could be okay with taking revenge for their deaths out on me. But they didn’t. That’s commendable.”

Natasha turned sideways to face him. “I’ve never seen anything like it before, not once in the UDK world I grew up in. Life is insignificant to them. It has no meaning there. The ones I knew would just as easily of killed me as let me go. And it’s strange that these people are so accepting of me and that I feel almost like I could belong here, with them, with you, when I never felt like I ever belonged with my own kind.”

The wind picked up, tousling her short hair around her face as she turned toward him. The moon caressed her features, highlighting the waiflike beauty of them. “They’re celebrating life. They’re celebrating the lives of Brittney and Michael.”

“There’s no music. That’s stupid,” he said with a snort, quickly looking away from her penetrating gaze.

It wasn’t stupid. It was amazing. The people around him were phenomenal, and it was a shame—it was worse than a shame—that they were treated and depicted as though they were mistakes, monsters, and abominations. They were better than any other people he’d even known, and they were most likely going to die, and for what? So some power hungry society could feel better about themselves, so they could feel normal, in control.

It was even stupider to care about them because most of them would probably die, and yet he did. So maybe they weren’t stupid, but he was. And when he looked at Natasha, his chest squeezed; for all the slights she’d endured, from him and others, and for her feeling of inadequacy that was far from true. Maybe that made him stupidest of all—letting himself care for her, and he feared he did.

“It’s not stupid,” she snapped, giving his shoulder a hard shove.

Christian impulsively grabbed her hand and tugged her to him.

“Quit grabbing at me all the time! You’re such a brute!” Natasha slapped at him, her palm meeting the chiseled flesh of his pectorals. “What are you doing?”

“I’m trying to dance with you, if you’d ever hold still.

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