Book Four: Theo The Change that devastated the earth didn't destroy Theo Waxnicki. It made him something more than human eternally young, eternally beautiful ... but not immortal. When he dies on a mission against the Strangers, he is lost ot the darkness...until a miracle lady brings him back. Born during the apocalyptic storms and earthquakes that left the world in ruins, Selena has dedicated her life to easing the pain of others. But Theo is the first in her care to actually survive. Responding to Selena's tender touch, Theo starts to live again, to feel and desire again. But joined in a world of terrors, the secrets they can never share make them targets. And love could be the ultimate betrayal. 
"Selena!" She couldn't focus, could hardly move or breathe. But it sounded like Theo. Theo. Oh, God, no ... no, she had to be dreaming. But then suddenly, he was there. Impossible. But he was. Somehow, pulling and beating at the monsters that crowded around her. Tearing through them to get to her. Oh, God, Theo. She couldn't think what this would mean, now. Not now. Later. "Selena," he shouted, as he found her with his eyes from outside the ring. "Come on!" He swung something large and heavy a massive branch and it crashed into the skull of one of the monsters. Selena cried out in horror as the bone crunched, and the creature staggered back, collapsing onto the ground. Dead. But still trapped. "No!" she shouted at Theo. "Stop!" Tears stung her eyes, her battered body wouldn't move...she couldn't breathe but she had to stop him before he killed any more of them. "No, please," she cried, trying to make her voice work, even as she grabbed the hand of a creature close to her. The surge bolted through her, and this time it brought her gasping to her knees. But she held the gaze of the old man until the orange glow went out and he was freed. "Go, Theo," she cried when she caught her breath. "Let me do this!" "I'm not leaving you," he shouted back, and whaled again at the zombies. |
