Fluorescence: The Complete Tetralogy

by P. Anastasia

  How can I be safe?

  How can I ever have a normal life again?

  Friends?

  A lover?

  What do I have to do to be free of this curse?

  Would I have to die?

  Brian

  What does it feel like to die?

  Well, I can’t really tell you because I was never actually dead. Okay, maybe I was for a few minutes, at least by legal and medical definitions. But to me, death is the end of life, and what happened to me was anything but the end. My soul lived. Untethered from my earthly body, but alive in every sense of the word.

  I felt emotions—I felt hope. Hope for a future that would be much brighter thanks to us and the sacrifices we made for the people we loved. Hope for a world recovering from the brink of extinction. And I felt love—love for my son, Solus, and love for the beautiful, selfless woman I gave up everything for. Alice. My Alice.

  After Solus revived me, I began to understand how very limited and fragile our mortal bodies were. I was human again—and I’d lost the ability to heal. Life is a gift, and we only have so much time to live it.

  My heart is fixed, but there’s another hole in me now because I know what it’s like to be invincible. How powerful and endless the soul really is. Alice was wrong to think I had left her, because even in death, I was going to stay by her side. My energy and hers, always together, even if she couldn’t see me. She’d feel me—guarding her while I waited for my chance for our colorful souls to reunite.

  Now that I had heard the true nature of Kareena’s feelings, it was harder for me to look away. But I had to.

  Day one of school, she’d been there. Even before Alice had touched me. But I thought she was just trying to sample the new menu. A superficial fetish. I never knew she actually had genuine feelings for me. That she… loved me.

  But David had a point. Kareena didn’t have to be a bitch about everything. No matter what feelings she had for me, she didn’t have to treat everyone like crap.

  I wonder if I’ll ever see David again.

  We hit a rough patch in the beginning, but I grew to like him. He held some small admiration for me in his heart over my relationship with Alice, I think. I sometimes noticed it in the way he looked at us. It wasn’t jealously. Just… awe.

  He wanted to be loved, and he was—by his beautiful daughter, Lucy.

  Even the strongest man needs love to keep him going. I know this better than anyone.

  Alice

  People say children are our future. That they will lead the way to a better tomorrow. That the things we teach them—the lives we show them how to live—will shape the destiny of mankind for centuries to come.

  It’s never been truer than it is today.

  Our son, Solus, changed the world. He wasn’t just a child of circumstance, he was a child of love.

  I’ve been thinking about what Kareena said to David—about not wanting Brian anymore—and it got me thinking about how our love had changed over the years.

  I fell in love with Brian early on.

  Earlier than I should have, maybe.

  Before he opened up his notebooks and showed me his sacred drawings.

  Before the dance that changed him. That changed us.

  Before the night his light made my skin tingle and my heart flutter, and the kiss that left me dizzy and sick with happiness.

  We didn’t expect or want a child so soon, but it happened, and we didn’t let it tear us apart. We grew closer. Stronger.

  I don’t know how long it will be before we can make a new life for ourselves, but we’ll figure something out. It’s going to be hard—probably the hardest time we’ll ever face in our entire life.

  But nothing will stand in our way. Together, we stopped our world from dying. We did something amazing. We saved David’s life and we saved his daughter years of sorrow from not having a father to love her.

  Our son changed the future.

  Some people believe teens can’t fall in love. Not for real, at least. But Brian and I have a child—one who needs us to stay together. A beautiful, radiant child with glistening green and blue eyes. With light brown hair that mirrors his father’s and a chubby, round face like an angel.

  A fluorescent angel.

  Now there’s a little part of him in all of us.

  And in you.

  Worlds collide when a young woman with a dark past encounters a young man with an even darker one. More human than vampire, Dark Diary is a quaint, sophisticated romance detailing the accounts of two lovers who have paid the ultimate price…

  A forbidden romance in the vein of classics like Wuthering Heights, frosted with the seductive allure of the original Dark Shadows, Dark Diary documents a pair torn apart by time. The story is told by a 400-year-old immortal and a 21-year-old modern-day artist.

  He’s trapped in a never-ending circle of guilt over the loss of a friend and lover—the daughter of an English Baron in 17th century Ireland.

  She’s haunted nightly by visions of her own untimely death.

  Together, they find solace by sharing secrets beneath the light of the moon.

  SEPTEMBER, 2016 | www.darkdiarynovel.com

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