Seacursed: The Mage Circle Trilogy: 1 by L.A. McGinnis

Author:L.A. McGinnis [McGinnis, L.A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Fools Journey Press
Published: 2020-08-17T05:00:00+00:00

21

Lucas watched the shower of gravel spill off the side of the drop-off as he skidded to a stop, seconds after Victoria’s bare feet disappeared into the dark, frothy water below. “Victoria.” Her name echoed up and up, then down through the canyon stretching between the grey shale mountains. He screamed it again. And again. And again.

He screamed until Tate pulled him back from the edge.

“Get in the goddamned truck. We’re heading down to the river.”

Since it was either kill Tate or find Victoria, Lucas ran to the truck. Tate drove fast, the bald tires barely tracking on the soft graveled edge of the road, the river a light-flecked serpent of green a thousand feet below.

“Fucking faster,” Lucas growled, searching that water for any glimpse of white-blonde hair. “I swear to Christ, Tate, if she’s not there when we reach the edge of the river, I’m going to kill you where you sit.”

The asshole at least had the good sense to look sorry.

But it was another ten minutes before he said, “She wasn’t going to tell you. And now you know.”

“Trust me. I already knew.” Lucas tipped his head back onto the headrest, the pickup rattling beneath him. “She didn’t have to tell me, and neither did you. What the fuck were you thinking? You, of all people, should understand what life’s been like for her. You should have some sort of empathy for her. And you didn’t. Why?”

“Because we don’t have time for empathy or sympathy or any of that bullshit. You two don’t have time to play house and moon about. They’ll be looking for her, and sooner or later, they’ll come for her. But right now, the biggest problem is she’s running out of time. For fuck’s sake, Lucas, she’s going to die in a day. And for her, there’s no coming back.”

“But for you, there was?”

“You know what I am now, Lucas.”

Luc turned away from Tate and watched the river, searching. There was no name for what Tate was. Half in and half out, so to speak, which was why he was bound to these lands. Every bit a prisoner, Lucas supposed, as he’d been as a Tracker, chained to one place, his shackles merely invisible.

“You don’t want this for her. Trust me, she doesn’t want it.”

“But the alternative?”

“Devlin might set her free,” Tate said, whipping the truck around a deadly curve, the road slipping beneath them as they barely hugged the turn. “If we had something of value he wanted. Something we could trade.”

“I’m not giving up my brother,” Lucas snarled. “And don’t forget, I killed Worton. And two guards. Chances are, I’m damn high on his list now, too.”

“Me,” Tate said, slamming the truck to a stop at the bottom of the steep road. “There’s a chance he might set the girl free if he could get to me.”

“That’s a shitty trade,” Lucas snapped. “I’m not making deals with Devlin. Besides, he’d never keep his word; he’d just use the trade as an opportunity to round us up and kill us one by one.

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