Alex Undead: The Vampire Extinction, #2 by Jennifer Martucci & Christopher Martucci

Author:Jennifer Martucci & Christopher Martucci
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: paranormal romance, paranormal shifters, teen paranormal romance, teen fiction, horror, occult, supernatural, urban fantasy, sookie sackhouse series, The Vampire Gift, vampire fiction
Publisher: Jennifer Martucci
Published: 2017-08-16T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Greyson

Greyson drew in a deep breath. He hadn’t discussed his life before being turned in longer than he could remember. Yet despite the decades that had passed, time hadn’t eroded his memory. It remained as sharp and crystal clear as ever.

Looking up into Alex’s angelic face, for a split second he panicked. She knew him as what he was now: a vampire. A vampire who killed to survive, only targeting those who fit his profile. The lowest of the low among the human population. But life before had included death as well. And his killing had been far less discriminant.

He’d been to war. The Vietnam War. And he, like everybody else who’d fought in the Vietnam War, carried his own version of it. Each tour had been one year. So a man who fought through the 1968 Tet Offensive had known one war while another there in 1971 knew a completely different war. Each man had his own account. Some cooked in mess halls. Some served as medics. And some—men like Greyson—dropped from helicopters, trudged through hostile, festering terrain, and carried out clandestine missions.

For the first time since dying more than forty years ago, he’d been asked to share his version of the Vietnam War. Alex had asked him to share his story with her. A story that ended in a sopping Southeast-Asian field in the dead of night.

Running sweat-slickened palms down his thighs, Greyson licked his lips and began.

“I enlisted in the Army as soon as I turned eighteen. It was what I’d always wanted to be. Who I felt I was. A soldier.” He shrugged and sighed, his voice trailing off. The irony of the departure between what he’d always wanted to be, what he’d been and what he was now bowed the corners of his mouth to a frown. “I went from basic training in Fort Benning, Georgia and served for two years before the United States became involved in the war in Vietnam.

“During those two years, I’d worked through the ranks, earning the promotion to Lieutenant Colonel before being sent to Southeast Asia.

“In Vietnam, I was assigned to the Military Assistance Command’s Studies and Observation Group or MACV-SOG. The joint unit was responsible for many of the cross-border intelligence gathering and special operations missions during the Vietnam War.

“In late 1969, I was part of Operation Ivory Coast, the rescue of American Prisoners of War at Son Tay Prison just a few miles south of Hanoi. I was among a hand-picked unit of Army Special Forces and Air Force pilots.”

Alex’s eyes widened. To her, a Special Forces team sounded like an elite group. And they had been. Each and every man on the team had earned his rank and nickname. Except Greyson. How he’d landed on their team had been a mystery. But he wouldn’t tell the details each member. Doing so would cause him to speak names he hadn’t uttered in decades. They were gone but not forgotten. The pain of their loss was still fresh, in fact.

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