Riley’s POV

“I know that you hear me,” whispers Theo's voice, in the distance. “That you can hear me, there in the middle of the darkness in which you find yourself. If so, I ask you to come back. I can't do it alone...”

I never thought it would take such a great effort to find the strength within me to open my eyes. But there, at the end of it all, I manage to locate my own consciousness within this heavy lump that is my body at this instant. A moan leaves my lips. My ...