Waging War by April White

Author:April White
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: vampire, world war ii, paranormal, french resistance, time travel, bletchley park
Publisher: April White

Archer – Present Day

The hollowness since she’d left was crushing.

I’d felt like a shark the past few days, always moving so I didn’t have time to feel her absence.

When I woke with a vivid memory of the night in Marianne’s barn when I’d left her sleeping, I was furious at myself – at the man I’d been then. I was consumed with jealousy that she was with him – with me. It was utterly irrational and arguably insane to be jealous of myself.

Saira’s habit of running had become my own, and I’d found it was generally an effective means of avoiding the company of the well-meaning and wonderful family with which she had surrounded herself. I’d been least successful at shaking the young Shifters since coming to stay at Elian Manor, and they had been methodically eroding my will to be alone.

I returned from my rooftop prowl, having been kept company by a large Philippine Eagle, to find Adam Arman in the library with his sister, Ava. Sanda had set tea things for three, and I raised my eyebrows. “Expecting someone?”

“Hoping to find you, actually.” Arman looked me right in the eyes. There was defiance in his gaze, as if he dared me to challenge him. I permitted myself a small smile at Sanda’s observance of propriety in setting a tea cup for me despite the fact I hadn’t used one in over a century. In fact, the last cup of tea I’d ever had was from a chipped green mug in Ringo’s flat. I shook my head to clear the image of Saira, so beautiful in that flat on the last day of my life as a normal man, and focused my thoughts on the present.

“If it’s a social visit, I warn you, I’ve been better company.” I sat at my favorite library table and swiveled the captain’s chair away from the view of my own hollow-eyed gaze in a mirror over Arman’s left shoulder. Ava’s expression was entirely too sympathetic for my temper, so thankfully it was her brother who spoke.

“Our parents are playing a very political game, and their focus at the moment is the Descendant Council. Despite Lady Elian’s appeal to wait until there’s a suitable replacement for Rothchild if they remove him by force, they continue to insist that the vote be held at the next Council meeting. With Shaw and the Ladies Elian so clearly at odds with our parents’ plan, we can’t go to them for help.”

“For help with what?” I studied the young man, who always seemed so comfortable in his own skin. It was a trait that had taken me several decades to learn, and I admired him for it.

“There is a war coming between the Immortals,” said Ava, “and the mixed-blood Descendants are in the biggest danger.”

My eyes narrowed. “Don’t you mean between the Immortal Descendants?”

Ava’s gaze never left mine. “I mean what I said.”

The ramifications of her statement were staggering. The original Immortals hadn’t appeared among the Descendant Families for centuries, maybe even millennia.

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