The Vampire's Genesis (Fatal Allure Book 00) by Martha Woods

Author:Martha Woods [Woods, Martha]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-02-21T03:00:00+00:00

“So that’s what happened,” He said, snapping back to reality out of the haze of memory, “That’s where… I think that’s where I broke.”

“You were really in the middle of all of that… God, I can’t even begin to imagine what something like that was like.” Vittoria passed him another mug, his previous having been drained long ago. “Especially for someone who took your vows, I don’t know how I would feel about it.”

“Over the years I’ve come to accept that what I did needed to be done… but I don’t know if I actually ended up doing anything to help anyone. The one person that I was trying to protect died in my arms, if the entire reason that I broke my vows dies then what was the point of me breaking them in the first place?” He sighed, tilting his head back and draining his mug, “I was the entire reason that he died in the first place, if he’d only been looking out for himself… if he hadn’t had to focus on saving me as well…”

“Then maybe he would have died, maybe he wouldn’t have, but that’s war.” Though not unkindly, the Stranger rolled his eyes. “I’ve seen and been a part of more wars than I can even count, and the cardinal rule of them is this: people die. They will die in numbers, and they will die for no reason, and once everything is said and done it’s likely that not a single one of them will even know what they were fighting for in the first place. Do you know why it was that you were fighting?”

“To get the French invaders out of my country.”

“But do you know why they were here in the first place?” He waited for an answer, even though he knew that he wasn’t going to receive one. “Only those who decide who fights are ever privy to the reason, the rest of us who go out and give our lives are lucky to even see the end of the battle, much less find out why we were doing so in the first place. Fighting for your country is a futile thing, because it will never fight for you.”

“It sounds like you lost faith in your country long ago, whatever country it was.” Vincent chucked bitterly, “I envy you. I think that I lost faith in something far more important to me.”

“What was that?” Vittoria asked, leaning forward and placing her hand on his knee, “What did you lose faith in?”

Vincent shuffled uncomfortably, even after all this time unsure about saying it out loud. He’d thought it often over the years, in the nights where he had lain awake or the mornings where he wished that he’d never woken up, but saying it to other people… that was a confession that you couldn’t take back. But it was one that he knew he had to make.

“I lost faith in God. If He cares for us, if He is really watching

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