by Emma Shortt
“Don’t do that,” Seb said, pulling the syringe free. “Leave her there.”
“The floor’s cold,” Tye snapped. “She hates the cold.”
“I know.” Sebastian held the syringe aloft. The blood inside it seemed almost to glint in the light. “Pete? Jay?”
The two men stepped forward, ready Jackson knew, to pin Polly down the moment she tried to attack. Because she would attack. It was simply a question of time now.
“Get away from her,” Tye shouted as Pete and Jay moved in. “Get the fuck away from her.”
“It’s okay,” Sebastian said, but his words were drowned as the redheaded zombie groaned, as if sensing the awakening of one of her own.
“Fix her,” Tye roared, placing kiss after kiss on the Polly zombie’s head, rocking her stirring body in his arms. “Fucking fix her.”
Sebastian stood up, the syringe still in hand, the deep red, antibody-rich blood almost pulsing. “I intend to.”
Acknowledgements
Firstly, I want to say a huge thank-you to my editor, Erin, for taking a chance on this novel. I’ll forever remember the day I got the call. You rock! Also thanks to the team at Entangled, including Libby, who kicked my ass on a million plot points (quite deservedly, too), my awesome publicist, Danielle, and, of course, to Liz.
Writing is a solitary business but in my little world it is made a hell of a lot easier by the support of my writing buddies and my family. A big kiss to Vix for being my cheerleader from the very beginning all those long, long years ago. We said we’d get there in the end, didn’t we? An equally big kiss to Sarah for all the computer notes. I started each writing session with a smile on my face because of you. Pickle, Reuben, need I say more? Major hugs to my husband, Stel, for making all the dinners and accepting the fact that marrying me meant he’ll never again have matching socks, or even a clean house for that matter. And to Andy, because it was me and you from the beginning, and no matter what you’ll always be kid to me.
David Bridger, dear friend, and fellow Browncoat, thank you for reading this when it was still in its early form, even though you were superbusy and it gave you nightmares! To the BoE gals, Alexandra O’Hurley, Cat Kelly, Marie Medina and Xondra Day, your support has kept me going when my fingers have been cramping and my head pounding.
And lastly, to my readers. It still blows my mind that you guys go out and spend your hard-earned money on something that I created. How freakishly wonderful is that? Thank you all, your support means more than you’ll ever know.
About the Author
As a kid Emma wanted to be an astronaut, or maybe Captain Janeway. Because she didn’t really think her career choices through very well she ended up in an everyday geek job, crunching numbers and sighing over syntax. It seemed a long way from the stars and in an effort to escape Emma decided to get serious about her other passion. Writing.
Several years later and Emma has yet to walk on the moon or sit in the Captain’s chair, but she is still writing. She scribbles stories in all sorts of genres, contemporary, paranormal, post-apocalyptic, historical, sci-fi...if she hasn’t tried it yet she will before long. The only common theme is the romance. A hopeless romantic everything Emma writes has a love story in there somewhere.
She lives on the west coast of England with her very Greek husband and teenage kiddos. Apart from all things geek, reading is her main hobby and she likes nothing better than getting home from a hard day at work and curling up with a book, though sometimes she gets home and writes one instead.
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