Not Part of the Plan (Blue Moon, #4)

by Lucy Score

“You know how some people say that looking at the stars makes them feel small?” Niko set his plate aside, nodded. “Insignificant specks. How do they make you feel?” “Like I’m part of it all.” “A significant speck then.” She laughed lightly at the way they slid back into the rhythm of intimate conversation despite the fact that they were little more than strangers. “That’s exactly it. I am a significant speck and part of the cosmos.”

“We’d been lucky enough to have this wonderful, amazing woman in our lives, and neither of us ever thought to document her. To capture and keep her moments. And we lost the chance to when we lost her.” “So you became a photographer.”

Niko examined the photos on the walls. He’d shot some of them. The one of Gia upside down in wheel pose had been part of the yoga series. He got up to study it closer. And found what he was looking for. The spark. Every model had that spark of life in them, and he made it his mission to tease it out of them. It was like catching a glimpse of someone’s soul, he thought. And it was what had been missing lately. Without that spark, that soul, a picture was just a picture. It didn’t tell a story or provide a window into a life.

“Don’t be afraid of pain, or less-than-perfect, daughter of mine. That’s where the real joy comes from. Life gets its color from challenges and adversity. You can’t plan your way to happiness, you know.”

believe in the kind of feeling that stops you dead in your tracks and changes everything you ever believed. I believe in a love so swift and sure that it knocks the wind right out of you and leaves you lying on your back staring up at the sky wondering what just hit you.”