Agent of Magic Box Set by Melissa Hawke & Drake Mason

Author:Melissa Hawke & Drake Mason [Hawke, Melissa & Mason, Drake]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Urban Epics
Published: 2020-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

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I WASN’T ENTIRELY SURE HOW I’d missed it before, but the deck of The Red Death fairly hummed with enchantment. If I’d had the time or inclination to tear the ship apart, board by board, I was certain I’d have found a mage’s handiwork etched into every board. The vampires had paid someone the big bucks in order to procure spells of that magnitude. The knowledge that there was another warlock working for the vampires made me twitchy. How many more mages were secretly in cahoots with the vampire houses?

“How fast are we moving do you reckon?” I stage whispered. The stealth wasn’t truly necessary. The midday sun was out in force and all the vampires had retreated below deck, lest they meet a soupy end. The ship had continued to move at a decent clip despite the absence of anyone to guide it. I was guessing that whoever had enchanted the galleon had also given them a set of runestones to guide the ship to its proper destination. It was a distant cousin to the teleportation magic Declan could do, and was less tricky to manage. The stones drew toward one another like intercontinental magnets. Instead of folding space to make a bridge, it turbocharged any journey to shorten it.

Dominic stood a few feet away, back braced against the mast, watching the endless wash of gray ocean water fly past. I wasn’t a history buff, so I couldn’t say exactly how fast these things were meant to travel, but any idiot could have worked out it wasn’t supposed to be this fast. If I hadn’t known better, I would have guessed someone had strapped an engine onto this bad boy. At the rate we were traveling, we’d reach the French coastline in just a few days.

He didn’t turn his head to acknowledge my question. I bit back a sigh. So it was going to be like that, huh? He’d barely spoken a word to me after we’d laid out our terms and struck the deal with Barabbas. I wanted to dredge up some good-old-fashioned fury about that, but found myself strangely apathetic. I knew Dominic wouldn’t abandon me until after Valerius had been dealt with. But that didn’t mean he had to like me while we dealt with the problem. My brief stabs at congeniality had been met as well as could have been expected after the Faustian bargain we’d been forced to make. Silence was probably the best I was going to get.

Ignoring the resentment ripping through his aura like a violent undertow, I turned my attention back to the makeshift radio in my hand. I’d filched the parts I’d needed to construct one from various vampires’ quarters, including the captain. With Valerius taking a long and contented nap inside my head, I thought it was probably safe enough to stretch my magical muscles again. The result of my hours of etching had produced a small, ugly lump of metal that emitted intermittent chatter, mostly consisting of whiny pop songs and talk radio.

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