Kiss Across Blades

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KISS ACROSS BLADES (Kiss Across Time: Book 9.0)
A Vampire Time Travel Romance Novel

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EXCERPT FROM KISS ACROSS BLADES
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When Sydney patted the empty half of the loveseat next to her, while still talking to Taylor, London hid her momentary upset and settled upon the cushion.  There was no harm in Remi talking to Liberty, after all.  Even if her heart did jump at the sight.   She listened to the two women, trying to shrug off the touch of angst.

They were talking about silverfish in their linen closets.  The banal domestic topic made London blink.

“You look confused, London,” Taylor said.  “You don’t get silverfish in Brittany?”

“I do,” London said, with a grimace.  “It just seems like a…well, you two have crossed history multiple times.  The things you must have seen!  But you sit here and talk about insects.”

“It’s a nice change of pace,” Sydney confessed.  “It reminds me of human concerns.”

“It keeps Sydney humble, is what she really means,” Taylor said, smiling.

Sydney raised her brow.  “And you, too.”

“I have no need to be humbled,” Taylor said archly.  “I live with the two biggest egos on the planet.”

“I heard that,” Veris growled.

Taylor blew him a kiss.

Alexander, who had been talking to Veris, laughed.  “We should move inside and let those with metabolisms eat dinner.”

“Second dinner, for Liberty,” Sydney said, nodding her head to draw Alexander’s attention to where Remi was wiping the girl’s hands and the ends of his hair with a wet cloth, removing sauce from both.

Even the sight of that little domestic task made London’s belly cramp.

“Rafe is feeding Jason,” London said, lifting her voice.  “That just leaves me, and I’m good for now.”

Alexander shrugged and settled back in his chair.  “Where were we, then?” he asked Veris.

“Actually, I have a question,” Remi said, also raising his voice to include everyone beneath the pergola.   He folded the damp cloth and rested it on the arm of the chair.   “It’s a technical question.  Is it alright to ask it in present company?”  His gaze didn’t shift to Liberty, who sat with her long legs up against her chest in the corner of the armchair next to Remi’s.

“Perfect fine,” Alex said.  “Ask away.”

Remi scratched at the back of his neck.  He kept his hair a little longer than was fashionable, these days, but not long enough to tie back or even up in a knot, which pleased London.  She wasn’t sure what she thought about man buns, yet.  Although Neven had explained that resisting fashion was a way of marking themselves as not of this era, so no matter what they felt about beards and top knots and piercings, sometimes they had to adopt those standards.

“I was wondering about the…well, the mechanics involved in bringing Liberty forward,” Remi said.  “I know it was a compound jump.”

Neven stiffened.  He said nothing, made no sound at all, but London could feel the tension in him.  She knew exactly what he was feeling, because the same uneasiness bloomed in her.

She stared at Remi, wishing there was a way she could demand he take the question back.  But to say anything at all would expose her fear to everyone sitting in the loose circle around the trio of drum tables.

“It wasn’t compound in the sense that I crossed to an alternative time,” Sydney said.  “Although it was across the timescape, so it was compound in that regard.  I always get Neven’s definitions mixed up, though.  What’s the name of a jump taken across the timescape, but not across worlds, Neven?”

Neven didn’t answer.  He stared at Remi, who seemed oblivious to his regard.

“Neven?” Veris said softly, as everyone stared at Neven.

London couldn’t move.  Her heart thudded in her ears and her eyes ached.

Taylor pulled her gaze away from Neven, to look at London quizzically.  Her amused expression faded.  “London?”

It was too late to hide anything.  Her tears spilled.  London wiped them quickly.

Remi didn’t look at either of them.  He kept his gaze upon Sydney.  His jaw was tight.

Veris cleared his throat. “This isn’t really about Liberty at all, is it?”

Neven stirred.  He looked down at his hands.  He didn’t speak.

Veris swiveled his gaze to London.

London swiped at her cheeks again. Now she knew what the thing was that she had not been able to pin down, earlier.  The nagging worry that would not surface.  Had Remi been building up to this all day?

Possibly.

“London?” Veris said, his tone just as soft as before.

She realized that she would have to reveal the details to everyone, after all.  It was already out there. Veris and the others would dig until they had it all.  London said, “Not long after Jason was born, Remi spoke about going back to when he was human.  To bring his children forward to this time.”

Everyone looked at Remi.

He shook his head.  “It was a theoretical question about Liberty.  I was curious. Compound or linear or whatever.  That is all.”  Yet his jaw was iron hard.  Anger glinted in his eyes.  He was on the defensive.

“We have listened to you long enough, Veris,” London said.  “We know the dangers of a straight jump like that.  And I didn’t think I could manage a compound jump.  I’m still not sure I could.  The more stories we heard about time jumps gone wrong, the more we knew we couldn’t take the risk.  Remi died that night—the timing would have to be flawless, and…and…” her voice grew strained as her throat tightened up.  Oh, the dangers they would risk, if they tried!

Remi looked away, his jaw working.

Neven shaded his eyes with a hand, hiding them.

“I thought we had put it behind us,” London whispered.

No one spoke for the longest time.

Vampires, when they were still, were very still.  Trees showed more movement. And everyone held still now, their gaze upon Remi, or upon London.

Veris stirred and rubbed his jaw.  “It is dangerous.  Not because of the difficulties of the jump, which merely depend upon a well-traced route through the timescape—”

“Only you could call it simple,” Sydney shot back. “You don’t have to navigate it.”

Veris inclined his head in acknowledgement.  “It doesn’t remove the dangers of paradox, of screwing up the timeline—”

“Why are we even speaking about this at all?” Brody demanded.  “It’s flat out a bad idea.  Let’s move on.”

“We should talk about it because three of my friends are in pain,” Veris replied, his voice flat.  “Look at them, Brody.”

Brody ran his hands through his hair, his gaze flitting from Neven to Remi, to London.  She didn’t bother wiping her cheeks.  Everyone but her and Liberty were vampires in this tight little group.  They could all hear her heart beating hard.  Her harsh breath.  They could probably smell the salt in her tears.  She had got used to the idea that there was no such thing as true privacy with vampires.  They were able to detect far too much about a human’s physiology and deduce from there.

“We know it’s not worth the risk,” Neven said, his voice low.  “Only, to deny Remi this…it hurts.”

“It would destroy the timeline,” London whispered.

“Would it, though?” Sydney asked, her tone thoughtful.

Veris rolled his eyes.  “And here we go…”

Sydney threw out her hand.  “They died, Veris.  It’s not like Remi would be plucking them out of the life they would have lived.  They didn’t get a life.”

“There were no bodies,” Remi said.  “Not that anyone could find.  Not that I could find, and I searched.  For hours and hours.  Days.”  He swallowed.  “Their headstones were placed over empty graves.”  He dropped his gaze to his knees.

London wept at the agony in Remi’s voice.  “I would take you back there in a heartbeat, if I only knew I could,” she whispered.  “If I knew a way to do it without destroying our own future at the same time.”

“Would you destroy it, though?” Sydney asked.  “If the future changes, we wouldn’t be aware of it.  We’d simply move off along the new path, ignorant of what might have been.”

“We would change our now,” Veris said, his tone harsh.  “This moment, the only one anyone gets.  This is what would change.  So we jump Remi back to that burning house—”

“Veris!” Taylor said sharply, her gaze shifting to Liberty, who sat with her eyes very wide, shifting her gaze from Veris to Sydney.

Veris subsided.  “Sorry,” he muttered and scrubbed at his hair.  “But my point still stands.  We jump Remi back, he steals the kids away at the very last moment.  Only, we come back to here and find that…shit, I don’t know.  It’s two hundred years—a lot could be affected by something even that small.   Taylor was never born, we never learned about time jumping, which means no Alex, Sydney and Rafe, either.  It could be a complete disaster and it’s what you would jump back to.  Forget the future you don’t know about.  This is now, and it would be your fault you fucked it up.”

London flinched.

Sydney picked up her hand and soothed the back of it.  “Only, no one back then would see Remi take them.  Nothing would change,” she pointed out.

Veris shook his head.  “Something has changed.  The children aren’t in the…the ruins,” he amended.  “Time doesn’t care if Remi is seen by another human or not.  Time itself is affected.  Quantum mechanics says he’s introduced a change, which will create other changes.”

“Small ones.”

“Which can grow into huge ones even in two hundred years,” Veris shot back.  “Why are we even arguing about this?  We all understand the physics. The butterfly effect is real.”

“Someone who might have heard them crying out won’t hear that sound and won’t be changed by it, for example,” Brody added.

Sydney shook her head.  “The risk of change is much smaller than it might normally be. There were no bodies found.  No one saw them die.  If Remi isn’t seen—”

“It doesn’t matter if he’s seen,” Veris flared.

“Not all changes are bad,” Sydney said complacently.  She didn’t seem to be even a little bit taken aback by Veris’ vehemence.  “Sometimes they’re needed.”

“Tell that to Taylor with a straight face,” Veris growled.  “Or have you forgotten kneeling in her blood while she died with her…”  His gaze shifted to Liberty once more.  “While she died,” he finished, his voice grating.

“And perhaps that was supposed to happen,” Sydney said calmly.   “This, right here,” she added, tapping her foot on the flagstones.  “This is the only timeline which counts, Veris.  You’ve said it over and over.  Humans live subjective lives.  Time is completely objective.  We can’t live our lives according to some other timeline.  We can only take care of this one.  Solipsism says so.”

Veris scowled.  London might have found it amusing, watching Veris have his own arguments turned back on him, had her gut not been so churned up right then.

Sydney lifted London’s hand, then put it back in London’s lap.  “They are here, therefore, this is their world and timeline to preserve.  Sometimes preserving the timeline includes steering it toward a better alternative.”

London shrank back.  They were really considering this?

Remi, though, was leaning forward, his expression eager, his eyes filled with fiery hope.

London’s eyes pricked all over again.  “You’re teasing Remi,” she said, raising her voice.  “How could you?”

The silence that came told her she had surprised everyone.

Veris held up his hand.  “London is right.  I apologize.  This is not a matter for theoretical arguments.  Remi, I’m sorry.”

Remi sat back with sigh.  He nodded stiffly.

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Cooper-Posey’s writing is always brilliant.

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There’s something fascinating and cerebral about a “Kiss Across Time” story that’s more than your usual fantasy-time-travel-story.

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I loved reading this rich, complex and interesting tapestry of interwoven lives and loves.

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GOLD! More compulsive reading for the Kiss Across Time series!

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Starts out with a bang! Couldn’t put it down. It’s a whole lot of fun.

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The cost of saving his children is too high…

Since learning that time travel is real, Remi de Sauveterre has yearned to jump back two hundred years to revolutionary France to rescue his children the night they died. Only, the odds of creating a time paradox which will destroy everyone’s future are huge.

London would give Remi his hearts’ desire if she only had the courage to attempt the dangerous jump back into his past, for she loves him and knows that refusing him will push him away from her and Neven.

Then she and Neven come across an alternative world where their son does not exist and, suddenly, the idea of risking everything to save their family seems worth it.  Only, time travel always goes wrong…

Reader Advisory: This time travel ménage romance story features two super-hot alpha vampire heroes and sex scenes, including anal sex and MM sexual play. Do not read this book if frank sexual language and sex scenes offend you. The time-space continuum was restored to order at the end of this book. Promise.

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