The Last Keeper by Michelle Birbeck

Author:Michelle Birbeck
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: The Writer's Coffee Shop Publishing House
Published: 2012-02-09T07:00:00+00:00

The sun was rising when I dragged myself from the floor to go in search of William’s eldest son. His room was the first place I checked, and I found him there, neck snapped. He must have been sleeping when Elena arrived. At least he didn’t feel any pain.

David had his own room, and I stopped there briefly, gathering some of the things he would need. It was a good thing William had a large carriage. He had refused to upgrade to a car, believing it was a phase the human race would soon grow tired of. A car would’ve been far too small to fit everything in.

William held the smaller portion of the records, though it was sizable enough. The entrance was in a similar place to mine and hidden in a similar way. It was easy to find.

Clearing it out would take time, but it needed to be done.

We never did discuss what would happen when we were both gone.

It was a simple task of picking up the boxes that were in William’s basement and loading them onto the waiting carriage. There’d never been any point in him unpacking them as the books he kept needed no updating. They were neatly stacked into three large trunks that I strapped to the top of the carriage. The rest were in smaller boxes that I crammed into every available space I found.

There would be no second trips to gather anything else. It would already take too long passing through occupied France, and would take more influencing humans than I cared for.

The last book I retrieved was William’s family tree. One of two copies. We’d agreed it was too dangerous to send any notifications to me, even though our postal system passed mail through the hands of several families before arriving. Personal letters were different, and rarely contained information that would identify us for what we were. So he kept a copy, and I had a second. It would need updating. A final entry for his family.

That could wait.

The sun was setting for a second time before I was ready to leave. The burning house created a warm glow on my back as I rode away. There would be no trace left of William or his family by the time anyone got to the house. They would assume they all had died in a tragic accident.

It would take me days to get back to my home. There was little point in stopping overnight, and William’s horses had been trained as my Tara had been. Still, I was reluctant to push him to the limits when he was pulling a fully laden carriage.

Plus, there was a stop I needed to make.

Now that I knew who was giving the vampires their information, I had to stop it. They would take no more lives, and they would never find Ray.

Dawn was breaking by the time I reached Lyon, bringing with it a red glow of promise. It was the colour of blood on the

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